Aussie chemistry teacher surprises students by listing the dizzying array of ingredients in natural everyday items

WOULD you like some linolenic acid and butanoate with that banana sundae?

Too bad, you’re getting them anyway, as a fascinating poster series looking at the chemistry within everyday natural foods has revealed.

James Kennedy Melbourne-based chemistry teacher James Kennedy has created and published the posters via his blog of the true ingredients of fruits.

Australian high school chemistry teacher James Kennedy has created and published the posters via his blog to teach students about the dizzying array of chemicals employed by Mother Nature to create something as seemingly simple as a banana.

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Never eating eggs again! They’re 0.0012% lactose!

Very nice. I once heard something similar in an interview about the chemical composition of an apple.

Some corrections. In the formula for Banana after “AMINO ACIDS” add (9%) and move “FIBRE E460 (3%)” further down the list to place it before “FATTY ACIDS”. Between the double commas “,,” after “ETHYL BUTANOATE” put “ISOAMYL ACETATE”.

>“AQUA”

How cute.

>“EGG … FATTY ACIDS (9.9%)”

That’s why Weight Watchers limits consumption to 7 eggs per week.

mollwollfumble said:

Very nice. I once heard something similar in an interview about the chemical composition of an apple.

Some corrections. In the formula for Banana after “AMINO ACIDS” add (9%) and move “FIBRE E460 (3%)” further down the list to place it before “FATTY ACIDS”. Between the double commas “,,” after “ETHYL BUTANOATE” put “ISOAMYL ACETATE”.

>“AQUA”

How cute.

>“EGG … FATTY ACIDS (9.9%)”

That’s why Weight Watchers limits consumption to 7 eggs per week.

PS composition of fruit varies after picking