What’s the Big Peel??
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What’s the Big Peel?? The Truth About Bananas
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What’s the Big Peel??. The Truth About Bananas. Words to Know. Pulp Percentage Edible Digestible Mass. The banana is a berry. TRUE?FALSE?. TRUE! - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What’s the Big Peel??
The Truth About Bananas
Words to Know
PulpPercentage
EdibleDigestible
Mass
• The banana is a berry.
TRUE ? FALSE?
TRUE!You may be surprised to learn
that bananas are berries. Berries are simple fruit having a
skin surrounding one or more seeds in a fleshy pulp.
• Bananas grow on trees.
TRUE? FALSE?
FALSE!Bananas grow on a tropical plant
that is not a tree– it has no trunk.
• Pound for pound, bananas are the most widely sold fruit in the
Unites States.
TRUE? FALSE?
• TRUE!• Bananas are the most
important of all commercial fruits, close to the combined production of all citrus fruits.
• Bananas are highly nutritious and
easily digestible.
TRUE? FALSE?
TRUE!A banana is one of the most easily digested foods and has
about 125-130 calories.
How much of the banana is edible?
If the whole banana is 100%,And we subtract the skin,What percentage is left?How much pulp is there?
Make your guess now.
You will:
Compare the mass of different parts of the banana.
Find the percentage of the banana that is edible.Graph your results.
Draw conclusions from the results.
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What percentage of your bananais edible?
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Did all the groups have the same results?
Explain how you know.
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What surprises, if any, did you find in the masses of the edible
parts and the peeling?
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Why would it be important to know which part of the banana
is edible?
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Why would it be important to know what part of the banana
is edible?
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What factors do you thinkmight affect the percentage of
a banana that is edible?
