Baking a potato is a physical change because the potato's chemical composition remains the same. The heat from the oven simply alters the texture, color, and taste of the potato without creating any new substances.
A mashed potato is still a potato. The only change is physically from a solid state into a mashed state. The chemical composition of the potato has not been changed.
When you cut a potato and expose it to air, the enzyme catalase in the potato reacts with oxygen to produce compounds like catechol and quinone. These compounds cause the potato to turn brown, indicating a chemical change has occurred.
pretty sure its a chemical change.
It is a chemical change. A chemical change is when you can't take the item back to its original state. Ex. A baked cake can't go back to cake batter.
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Contrary to popular belief, the calorie content of the potato doesn't change. What changes is the amount of moisture in the potato, so that a baked potato has more calories by weight than a raw potato.
Basically it is an Chemical reaction due to that it change it physically too. It is a chemical.
Cooking a potato is a physical change because it undergoes a change in form or appearance, but its chemical composition remains the same. Cooking causes the potato's starches to gelatinize and its proteins to denature, but no new substances are formed.
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Mashing a potato is a physical change because it's the same substance (the potato is still a potato) but in a different form.- - - - -Making mashed potatoes from fresh potatoes is both a chemical and a physical change: there are many chemical changes that occur when you cook a potato, and physical because it doesn't look anything like it did when you started.
Baking a potato is a physical change because the potato's chemical composition remains the same. The heat from the oven simply alters the texture, color, and taste of the potato without creating any new substances.
I believe that a baked rotten potato smells worse than a rotten potato that isn't baked.
it would be mashed potato but it would be baked style It matters not whether you boiled, baked or steamed the potato, the end result is 'mashed potato' Are you guys seriously arguing over this?
It is a chemical change - oxidisation.
A mashed potato is still a potato. The only change is physically from a solid state into a mashed state. The chemical composition of the potato has not been changed.
Because it is a mixture until it is baked and went through a chemical change and it is an endothermic reaction.