Recently in this Journal, we published a laboratory experiment called "Ripening Bananas: What Is Happening and Can We Control It?" that is used in our nutritional biochemistry course, taken by students who are majoring in nutrition, not in chemistry or biology (1). While our students enjoy this experiment and have had much success with it, we decided to create an experiment that is more "user friendly" for these inexperienced laboratory students. Over the counter glucose test strips have been incorporated into this experiment similar to Melton's note published in this Journal (2).
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