[CDATA[The presence of proteins can be detected by the Biuret test.<br/>
(i) Crush the food sample and put some of it into a clean test tube. Add some
sodium hydroxide solution.<br/>
(ii) Cork the test tube and shake it to mix the food with the sodium hydroxide
solution. Then add a little copper sulphate solution. Cork and shake it
again.<br/>If the solution turns blue, there is no protein in the food. But it turns violet, there is protein in the food.]]