This experiment was intended to prove which of the most popular home remedies really work, and which are myth. Through the experiment, we discovered that garlic is the only one of our solutions that has a significant impact on resisting E.Coli growth. Looking back on our hypothesis, we were correct in predicting that garlic would have the greatest effect on prohibiting growth of the e.coli. As we previously mentioned this is most likely due to raw garlic containing allicin. However, upon further research, we discovered that allicin is produced more readily when garlic is chopped or crushed. This is significant because the garlic we used in our solution was ground very intensively, which produced a great amount of allicin to fight the e.coli growth. The ginger was the second best as it had the second greatest zone of inhibition and fewer colonies than salt and turmeric in the 3 trials. Lastly salt and turmeric are essentially equally as effective as despite turmeric having a greater area of inhibition it had a greater number and larger colonies of e coli than salt in all 3 trials which had a smaller area of inhibition.
Our results are reliable, as garlic consistently outperformed the other remedies throughout all three of our trials and in general the averages of each trial are quite similar staying within a range of a one centimeter difference. Even the size and number of colonies of E.Coli on each petri dish was quite similar in all three trials. If we were able to redo this experiment we would generate incredibly similar results as in all of our trials for each substance we got nearly identical numbers. Of course there is going to be a slight variation in the numbers if we were to do this again but they are going to generate the same trend of results. Going forward, this knowledge will be very useful for the both of us as we are aware of what to take when we are sick.
Our results are reliable, as garlic consistently outperformed the other remedies throughout all three of our trials and in general the averages of each trial are quite similar staying within a range of a one centimeter difference. Even the size and number of colonies of E.Coli on each petri dish was quite similar in all three trials. If we were able to redo this experiment we would generate incredibly similar results as in all of our trials for each substance we got nearly identical numbers. Of course there is going to be a slight variation in the numbers if we were to do this again but they are going to generate the same trend of results. Going forward, this knowledge will be very useful for the both of us as we are aware of what to take when we are sick.