Does a Banana Have More Calories Than a Kit Kat Bar?

It’s a common belief that an average banana contains the same amount of calories as a regular Kit Kat bar. In order to prove that bananas are more nutritious than Kit Kats, we carried out various chemical experiments with Benedicts solution, IKI solution and used a homemade calorimeter to analyze the carbohydrate content of each food item in question. Not only did we analyze the chemical composition of both the Kit Kat and the banana but we also conducted an experiment and analysis of both the banana and Kit Kat’s affect on the blood pressure on our test subjects to analyze how the nutritional content of each food initially affected the body.

Materials used in this experiment:
· Bananas (3)
· Kit Kat Chocolate Bars (3)
· Bunsen Burner
· Retort Stand
· Ring Clamps
· Empty Pop Cans
· Barbeque Lighter
· Ceramic Plate
· Steel Screens
· Safety Goggles
· Home Blood Pressure Kit
· Benedicts solution
· Iodine Potassium Iodide (IKI) solution
· Beaker (250 ml±5%)
· Beaker Tongs
· 2 Test tubes
· Water
· Hot Plate
· Scoopula
· Mortar and Pestle
· 4 volunteers
· Paper towels
· Heat glove
· Medicine dropper
· Stopper
· Test tube rack
· Stir stick
· Knife
· Oven (112ºC)
· Paper Clip