{"id":299,"date":"2021-01-14T10:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=299"},"modified":"2021-01-14T10:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:25:22","slug":"sour-candy-chemistry-testing-for-acids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/sour-candy-chemistry-testing-for-acids\/","title":{"rendered":"Sour Candy Chemistry: Testing for Acids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know sour candy usually contains an acid (usually citric acid)? To investigate which candies contained the largest amounts of acid, we tested them using a base (baking soda). The more bubbles we observed, the more acidic the candy was! We tested Sour Skittles, original Skittles, Smarties, sour gummy worms, gummy bears, and sour watermelon candies.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our results!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-3-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-3.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-301\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-2-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-2.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-302\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-1-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/01\/sour-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know sour candy usually contains an acid (usually citric acid)? To investigate which candies contained the largest amounts of acid, we tested them using a base (baking soda). The more bubbles we observed, the more acidic the candy was! We tested Sour Skittles, original Skittles, Smarties, sour gummy worms, gummy bears, and sour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/sour-candy-chemistry-testing-for-acids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sour Candy Chemistry: Testing for Acids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}