HUMAN NUTRITION

NUTRITION

LIPIDS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Lipid test that differentiates cholesterol (negative) and phospholipid (positive)
A
Acrolein test
B
Molybdate test
C
Libermann- Burchard test
D
none of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In phosphate test, presence of phosphate is tested in cholesterol and lecithin. Cholesterol gave negative test with yellow colour solution and lecithin gave positive test with green color solution.

Detailed explanation-2: -Phosphate tests are standard experi-ments in soft matter research of phospho-lipid vesicles. Each phospholipid typically contains one phosphate diester moiety. The chemical digestion of the lipids leads to or-thophosphates that can be detected colori-metrically as metallo phosphates.

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