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Nutrition Science Fair Project

Sugar and Weight Gain

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Sugar and Weight Gain | Science Fair Projects | STEM Projects
Do you want to know if eating too much sugar can make you gain weight? This experiment will explore the effects of sugar on weight gain by feeding baby mice apples and jelly beans.

Hypothesis

The hypothesis is that baby mice fed with jelly beans will gain weight more quickly than those fed with apples.

Method & Materials

You will separate 10 baby mice into two groups, feed one group apples and the other jelly beans, and measure the weight gain of each group after two weeks.
You will need 10 baby mice, 14 apples, 1 large packet of jelly beans, 2 mice cages, 2 feeding trays, old newspaper, and a digital weighing scale.

Results

The results showed that the mice fed with jelly beans had a slightly higher weight gain compared to the mice fed with apples. This proves that eating too much sugar can lead to weight gain.

Why do this project?

This science project is interesting because it shows how eating too much sugar can lead to weight gain, even in mice.

Also Consider

Variations of this experiment could include comparing the weight gain of male and female mice given the two types of diet, or observing the weight variation of fully grown mice given food with different levels of sugar.

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