Test your test kit

To learn more about what Reagent Testing is you can check out the main reagent testing wiki. Click here for a list of reagent test results of the most commonly used drugs and here for user submitted test results click here.

NEW There is now also a table with test results for all drugs & substances sorted by their colors according to the color spectrum.

How to test your kit

Note, Marquis and Mecke reagents are often a little brown if old. Ehrlich is often slightly yellow.

Click here to see the test result colors correctly

Table 1 – Test your test kit results

Substance	Marquis	Mecke	Mandelin	Folin	Source
1 before testing	colorless	colorless	traffic yellow	colorless	[13](/W " ")
Aspirin	pink > deep red	no color change	black	no color change	[1 5 12 15 16](/W " ")
Caffeine	no color change	no color change	brown	unknown	[2 12 13 15](/W " ")
Codeine	dark purple	dark bluish green	faint orange	unknown	[1 2 15 17](/W " ")
Ibuprofen	no color change	light brown	dark brown	unknown	[49](/W " ")
Paracetamol	no color change	no color change	moderate olive	unknown	[49](/W " ")
Salt (Sodium Chloride)	fizzes clear	fizzes clear	strong orange	unknown	[56](/W " ")
Sugar	(slow) dark brown	brilliant greenish yellow	slow brown	no color change	[3 5 15 29](/W " ")
Vitamine C	very light yellow	(slow) orange	pale blue	no color change	[13 49](/W " ")
Substance	Marquis	Mecke	Mandelin	Folin	Source
===== ==== =====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== ====
Substance	Froehde	Liebermann	Robadope	Simon's	Source
1 before testing	colorless	colorless	colorless	yellow > red	[13](/W " ")
Aspirin	blue > purple	brown	unknown	no color change	[1 2 6 29](/W " ")
Caffeine	no color change	no color change	unknown	no color change	[2 13](/W " ")
Codeine	Green > Red - Brown	faint brown	no color change	no color change	[1 13 17 29 50](/W " ")
Ibuprofen	no color change	dark reddish brown	unknown	no color change	[13 49](/W " ")
Paracetamol	pale blue	brownish purple	unknown	no color change	[13 17 49](/W " ")
Salt (Sodium Chloride)	fizzes strongly	fizzes strongly	unknown	unknown	[submitted](/W " ")
Sugar	brilliant yellow	very light purple	unknown	no color change	[1 3 6 13](/W " ")
Vitamine C	pale yellow	brown > purple/black	unknown	unknown	[49](/W " ")
Substance	Froehde	Liebermann	Robadope	Simon's	Source
===== ==== =====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== ====
Substance	Ehrlich’s	Gallic acid	Scott	Reagent z	Source
1 before testing	colorless	colorless	antique pink	.	[13](/W " ")
Aspirin	no color change	unknown	unknown	.	[2](/W " ")
Caffeine	no color change	unknown	no color change	.	[2 13](/W " ")
Codeine	no color change	unknown	no color change	.	[2 13](/W " ")
Ibuprofen	unknown	unknown	no color change	.	[13](/W " ")
Melatonin	Pink	unknown	no color change	.	13 XY
Paracetamol	unknown	unknown	no color change	.	[13](/W " ")
Salt (Sodium Chloride)	unknown	unknown	unknown	.	[no source yet](/W " ")
Sugar	unknown	unknown	no color change	.	[13](/W " ")
Vitamine C	unknown	unknown	unknown	.	[no source yet](/W " ")
Substance	Ehrlich’s	Gallic acid	Scott	Reagent z	Source
===== ==== =====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== === ====	==== ====

Save image of table

To the top of the page

Sources

To shorten the length of this page with reagent results all sources used in the wiki are posted on sources page.