Red Bull Before and After : Red Bull Before and After : The Effects of the DrinkThe Effects of the Drink

By: Jennifer Jimenez & Jonathan By: Jennifer Jimenez & Jonathan MoraMora

What does a Red Bull contain?

A Red Bull contains: 27 grams of suger (2 tablespoons of sugar) 80 mg of caffeine Taurine (an essential amino acid where it

increases the high levels of the skeletal and heart muscles of humans)

Glucuronolactone (it supports the body to lose eliminate waste products)

Sucrose (it sweetens the drink)

Materials

10 cans of Red Bull plastic cups 2L Ginger Ale Sharpie 10 test subjects Hallway Stop Watch

Methodology We pour and label each 8 oz Red Bull/Ginger Ale

sample in an 8oz. Plastic cup We ask each person to run from one end of the hall

to the other. As they are running we time them. The participants will drink the Red Bull/Ginger Ale.

The following ratios of Red Bull:Ginger Ale were used so that the contents of Red Bull were the only variables, attempting to keep sugar, water, carbonation as constant as possible

Then, we wait 1 minute for them to drink the Red Bull

We ask them to run again and time them again as they run.

Throughout the experiment, we record data and qualitative notes

Data Table

Person: Amount of Red Bull

Amount of Ginger Ale

Sprint w. No Drink

Sprint w. Drink

Sammy B 8 0 10.59 sec. 10.5 sec

Chantel 6 2 12.03 sec 11.38 sec

Ruben 4 4 10.65 sec 9.66 sec

Sara 2 6 13.09 sec 12.63 sec

JJ 0 8 12.0 sec 10.3 sec

Fernanda 8 0 13.75 sec 13.72 sec

Gary 6 2 12.3 sec 9.66 sec

My Dad 4 4 19.5 sec 18.4 sec

Graph

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W. no Drink

W. Drink

Conclusion In conclusion, we had fun doing this

experiment. A small change that we could’ve done

was to work on this experiment earlier because we kept forgetting the materials.

But overall we felt like we did an excellent job.