Escsis-Earth Systems Center for Stable Isotopic Studies

YIBS: Earth Systems Center for Stable Isotopic Studies

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Fun Stuff: Food, Glorious Food

The following table contains results from analyzing food (after drying and grinding). These are from students taking a class dealing stable isotopes, as well as test runs done here. If you'd like to post results here too, please contact me. A spreadsheet containing this data can be found here: (soon I hope)

Do all the numbers make sense?

Can you estimate the percent composition from the nutrition information?

Are your results close to previous results?

Where was the food grown?

How was it fertilized?

Does it matter where the sample (e.g. leaf vs root) came from?

Can there be seasonal variations?

contact: escsis<at>geology.yale<dot>edu

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