Essay On Skittles

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Have you ever wondered how to separate the wonderful colors from the candy itself? What will the candy turn into when they separate it from the dyes? They wanted to see if they could find a more natural way to make the candy colorful, so that it wouldn’t cause so many health issues. They think that it will separate from the candy fine without any problems and that the Skittles will turn into a white-ish color and the M&M’s will be a chocolate color. The paragraphs in this essay consist of- what is the dye made of, how it can damage humans, and how to take away the dye from the candy. You might find that the dyes on candy are made up of very strange things. For an example, one of the things, red 40, consists of is ground bugs. The dye blue …show more content…

Technically, all they’re doing is taking the dyes of the 2 green M&M’s/Skittles, then in a ⅛ tsp of salt and 3 cups of water, mixed together, in a jar/glass, you put the filter paper on with a binder clip that has the skewer/straw going through it (on the filter paper, there are dots drawn on with a pencil, at the 2 and 4 cm mark, then drawn over with a toothpick dipped in the dye that came off the candy). After you follow all these steps, you start to see the different color dyes that have been mixed together, separate from each other.This helps us answer the problem statement, because after all of this, you will have separated it successfully, and then you can see what the candy is now. They discovered that what they wrote in the hypothesis, came true. When this paper was researched, they found that the dyes that they are eating on our candy, isn’t what they think it is. It is made up of many weird products and can cause many health issues. What will the candy turn into when you separate it from the dyes? They think that it will separate from the candy fine without any problems and that the Skittles will turn into a white-ish color and the M&M’s will be a chocolate color.This was a great way to find out more things about what they are putting into our

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