That’s about 58 grams for a 160-pound adult. The standard method for measuring fat content is called the Soxhlet extraction. In this method, food is ground up and continuously washed with an organic ...

Finely shredded solid plastics are extracted one-by-one in a Soxhlet apparatus with solvents, of increasing solvent power. To ensure that the plastic particles are fine enough to allow the components ...