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Subject: why does wheat absorb the most milk

Date: Tue Jun 13 23:55:31 2006
Posted by Josh
Grade level: 10-12 School: Arthur Phillip High
City: Sydney State/Province: NSW Country: Australia
Area of science: Other
ID: 1150268131.Ot
Message:

you then sent me this reply to my last question:
"Can you please tell us a little more about what other cereals you have
compared WeetBix to?  Are you sure it is the wheat that is the only
difference between the cereals you are comparing?  As it stands, it would
be difficult for us to find an answer to your question."

I compared weet-bix to 3 other cereals: fruity rings, rice bubbles and coco
pops, I even done my own experiment on which cereal absorbs the most milk; it
was weet-bix and I belive this is because weet-bix has the highest wheat or
grain percentage than the other cerals in it, so I am sure it is the wheat.
My hypothesis is that Weet-Bix will absorb the most milk because it is made out
of the most wheat, I also think it will be the soggiest cereal.

These are the ingredients of the cereals that absorbed the most milk that I tested:
1.	Weet-bix  - whole grain wheat, sugar (3.3%), fibre (11%), salt, barley, malt
extract, minerals and vitamin.

2.	Rice Bubbles - whole white rice (89%), sugar, salt, malt extract, and vitamins.

I think the wheat percentage in the weet-bix is approximately 85% after taking
into account the unkown percentages of the salt, barley, malt, minerals and
vitamans.

I hope this helps you answer my question and thank you.



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