What Cereal Absorbs the Most Milk?

Overview

Objectives/Goals To determine what cereal absorbs the most milk out of Grape Nuts Flakes, Special K, Total and Wheaties. Methods/Materials 1.Measure 8 oz. of Wheaties and poor it into a bowl. 2.Measure 7 oz. of 2% milk and poor it into the bowl with the cereal and let it sit for 3 minutes. 3.After 3 minutes, sift the rest of the milk into the measuring cup and see how much milk is left.(while sifting, do not shake or stir, just let sit) 4.Subtract the amount of milk ended with from the amount of milk started with which will equal how much milk the cereal absorbed. 5.Repeat this procedure 14 more times, so you have done the experiment 15 times for each cereal.(Grape Nuts Flakes, Special K and Total)which is a total of 60 trials. MATERIALS: 18 oz. of Grape Nuts Flakes, Special K, Total and Wheaties 3 gallons of milk 1 bowl 1 Stopwatch Results Grape Nuts Flakes absorbs the most milk and Total absorbs the least amount of milk. These results tell me that Total is the cereal that will stay the crunchiest the longest out of all the cereals I tested. Conclusions/Discussion The purpose of this experiment was to determine if Wheaties, Total, Special K, or Grape Nuts Flakes would absorb the most milk. My hypothesis was correct when I said that Grape Nuts Flakes would absorb the most milk. The average milk absorption for Grape Nuts Flakes was 2.42 oz., Wheaties was 2 oz., Special K was 1.9 oz. and Total was 1.66 oz. Therefore, Grape Nuts Flakes gets the soggiest faster and Total is the cereal that will stay crunchier longer.

Competition history

• CSEF 2002 Materials Science (Junior Division Only) · Entry J1128

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