Science Fair ideas

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Egg substitutes - Have any of your friends or family members ever had an allergic reaction to eggs? Try and find out what they can replace eggs with in their recipes.

How do you make the "BEST" cookie. - Have you ever bitten in to a cookie and thought, "this is the best cookie in the whole wide world!"? Was it one you made at home?

Hot Pot Choosing the right pot to cook your meals - What is cooking? Cooking is applying heat to food in order to help make it taste good. But the decision to cook your food doesn't end there. Investigate what pot should be used to cook certain foods.

Mag-nificent Breakfast Cereal - How much iron is in your cereal? In this experiment, you will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. Which brand of cereal will have the most iron in it?


Shimmy, Shimmy Soda Pop: Develop Your Own Soda Pop Recipe - On a hot summer day, don't you just love opening a can of your favorite soda pop and taking a deep drink? The bubbles in the soda tickle your tongue's taste buds and propel the ingredients to your palate and nose so that you get a kick of flavor. But how do the bubbles, fizz, and taste get into the water? In this cooking and food science project, you will work with baking soda, citric acid, and sugar to create a your own soda pop. Once you develop your recipe, try it out on your friends and family. Who knows? You might create the next soda pop sensation!

Sugar vs. Sugar Substitutes: Are They Just as Sweet?  - Have you ever run out of sugar while baking and tried to substitute another sweet ingredient, like honey? Or tried to make a "diet" version of a cookie using an artificial sweetener? You can try and find out if a sugar substitute really is a proper substitute.


Investigating How Food Wrappings Affect Spoilage - Have you ever eaten half of an apple and tried to save the other half to eat later? What happened to the other half when you were ready to eat it? Did it look and taste as good as the first half,... Investigate what food wrappings will really keep your food fresh.


How Greasy Are Your Potato Chips? - Although potato chips are very tasty, some varieties are not very healthy for you. A typical 1-ounce (oz.) serving of a well-known national potato chip brand contains 150 calories, 90 of which are from fat. How greasy are your favorite potato chips? Try this science fair project, and you'll get a visual understanding about how much oil a potato chip can hold.


Which Flour Has the Greatest Glob of Gluten? - Gluten is the substance in bread which, on a microscopic level, forms a rigid structure that traps the gases from the yeast, allowing the dough to rise. However, too much of the rigid gluten structure can make some doughs, like pie crust and pastry dough, too tough. Investigate which common flour brands have the most Gluten.


Have Your Chips Lost Their Chomp? Understanding How Food Becomes Rancid - You are looking under your bed for that video game you want to play, when you come across a real treasure—an open bag of potato chips that you forgot about! A crispy and salty potato chip is a tasty treat. But wait! This potato chip is not crisp and does not taste as great as it should. What happened? The chips have gone rancid! In this cooking and food science fair project, you will look into what factors turned your chips rancid.

Watch this video on how to present your Science Fair Project.

Guide to a successful Science Fair
This video comes from http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/category/science-fair and that page has a great guide to doing your science fair project from start to finish.