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What Is Alcoholic Fermentation?

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When adding cinnamon, vanilla, or cornstarch to a sucrose & yeast solution, which of the three ingredients will cause the fastest rate of fermentation? We will be testing this question to find its answer. One thing that plays a big role in studying this experiment, is Alcoholic Fermentation. Alcoholic Fermentation is a process where glucose, pyruvic acid, and NADH are converted into alcohol, carbon dioxide, and NAD+. This is the kind of fermentation these ingredients and the yeast & sucrose solution will be going through in our experiment. When yeast is mixed with an ingredient, the sugars from the mixture will be converted into carbon dioxide through alcoholic fermentation. When the carbon dioxide is released, it creates bubbles within the bread making it fluffier. The first of the three ingredients being tested is cinnamon. Cinnamon is a spice that comes from the branches of the Cinnamomum tree. These wild trees are most commonly found in the caribbean, south america, and southeast asia. Cinnamon is the second most popular spice in the United states and Europe. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266069.php It has a sugar concentration of 0.2 grams. The next …show more content…

I was able to hypothesize this based off of the research I did in an experiment prior to this. In my research, I discovered that as the amount of sugar content in a solution increased, so did the rate of fermentation. Because vanilla has the highest sugar concentration, I concluded that it would have the biggest effect on the rate of fermentation. I also was able to conclude that cinnamon would also have an affect but not as much as the vanilla, and that the cornstarch wouldn’t have an affect at all because it has no sugar in

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