Effect of Acids and Bases on the Browning of Apples - Chemistry Experiments

You want your hypothesis to be a null hypothesis or no-difference hypothesis because it is easier to test whether or not a treatment has an effect than it is to try to assess what that effect is. Was the hypothesis supported or not? If the rate of browning was not the same for the apples and the rate of browning was different for the acid-treated apples compared with the base-treated apples, then this would indicate that the pH (acidity, basicity) of the treatment did affect the rate of the enzymatic browning reaction. In this case, the hypothesis is not supported. If an effect was observed (results), draw a conclusion about the type of chemical (acid? base?) capable of inactivating the enzymatic reaction.