A doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) is a physician with training that differs slightly from that of a medical doctor with an MD. He or she is equally educated, with four years of undergraduate training, four years of medical schools, and additional years if he or she chooses to specialize.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. You can use a refractometer but it's a bit spendy ranging in price from $100 - $500. Or an inexpensive solution is using Benedict's reagent solution. You put 1ml of Benedict's into 5 -7 drops of liquid that your testing and heat it over a flame in a testtube.The higher the sugar content, the sugar content turns an orange-red and the lesser amount of sugar the solution will turn yellow-green.aking the world better, one answer at a time. You can use a refractometer but it's a bit spendy ranging in price from $100 - $500. Or an inexpensive solution is using Benedict's reagent solution. You put 1ml of Benedict's into 5 -7 drops of liquid that your testing and heat it over a flame in a testtube.
Testing for starch. Glucose is sweet and dissolves in water while starch is not sweet and does not dissolve well in water. A further test to distinguish starch from glucose is to shine a beam of light through âsolutionsâ of each. This is also called the Tyndall Beam Effect. Dispersal only happens in starch as the large starch molecules are big enough to affect the light. This is a physical test. A chemical test for starch is to add iodine solution (red) and see if it turns blue/black in colour. It is possible to distinguish starch from other carbohydrates using this iodine solution test. For example, if iodine is added to an peeled potato then it will turn black.