Science Day: Vitamin C Experiment

Science Day: So I don't know about you but I see antioxidants like vitamin C touted in creams. Why is this? Well tonight let's take a look at why this might be happening.

What your child needs for this experiment: Two paper plates. Two slices of cut apple, exposing the apple inside. A vitamin C pill crushed into fine powder. You can crush the vitamin C pill with a rock or paper weight on a different surface.

Put an apple slice on each plate. Sprinkle one slice with vitamin C covering entirely the exposed apple. Leave the other apple slice alone. Now normally with apple slices when you give them to kids, and they don't eat them right away, you might hear this, "Yuck! I don't want this! The slices are brown." The apple slices started turning brown because they were exposed to air. But when an apple slice is covered with vitamin C it will take much more time to turn brown. To see this in action have your child wait six hours and then look at the two plates. The apple without the vitamin C should be turning brown. Look again the next day. The apple slice without the vitamin C looks like it should be thrown out. If you want, wait another day and observe the condition of the cut up apples.