Kids Science Project Idea: Green Eggs
This science project is unique in that you will turn an egg green, but how it happens is very interesting and a great demonstration experiment.
Things you will need for the science project.
- Egg
- red cabbage
- A pan
- A pan
- A bowl
- Petroleum
- A father to help
You are going to make a green egg and cook it, but you will not use any food coloring or anything green. Let’s go to the experiment and then we will discuss the results and the hypothesis.
Take the red cabbage and slice it like you are making cabbage salad. You will not need a large amount of cabbage. A cup or two should do the trick. Put the cabbage pieces in the pot and pour in a cup of water. If you are using more cabbage, you may want a little more water. You don’t need much. Turn on the stove and set it to high or fairly high heat. Let the cabbage cook a bit. This could take ten to fifteen minutes. You want the water to take on a nice purple-red color from the cooked cabbage. Then we will use the water from the cabbage. Once the cabbage has cooked and the water is a very deep purple color, it is done.
Take your fresh egg and break it. Separate the yolk into a small bowl and the white into a slightly larger bowl. Now take a tablespoon of the red cabbage water and put it in the bowl with your egg white and use the spoon or a fork to stir it.
Heat your skillet or skillet and put a small amount of oil in the pan as it will cook the egg and should prevent it from sticking. When the pan is heated to the color egg white in the pan. You will notice that the egg white is green. You can also put the yolk on top of the egg white now to cook both together.
This will cook sunny side up because you don’t want to flip it as you want everyone to see the color green. When you’re done, you can obviously eat the egg. There is nothing wrong because the cabbage added the food coloring.
Why did this happened? He took the purple color of the cabbage and put it in the egg white and it turned green. You didn’t have the yolk involved in this. You only added the yolk after the white was cooked to finish the whole egg.
Why did this green coloration occur? What chemical process occurred? Was there any change in the egg crap itself?
This is a great science project for chemistry class in high school.