* Benedict's solution: Turns from blue to green, yellow, orange, or red depending on the concentration of sugar present.
* Fehling's solution: Turns from blue to green, yellow, orange, or red depending on the concentration of sugar present.
* Barfoed's solution: Turns from blue to colorless or yellow depending on the concentration of sugar present.
* Nylander's reagent: Turns from blue to green, yellow, or red depending on the concentration of sugar present.
Starches:
* Iodine solution: Turns from yellow to blue-black in the presence of starch.
* Benedict's solution: Turns from blue to green, yellow, orange, or red depending on the concentration of sugar present.
* Fehling's solution: Turns from blue to green, yellow, orange, or red depending on the concentration of sugar present.
* Barfoed's solution: Turns from blue to colorless or yellow depending on the concentration of sugar present.
* Nylander's reagent: Turns from blue to green, yellow, or red depending on the concentration of sugar present.
Lipids:
* Sudan III: Stains lipids red or orange.
* Oil Red O: Stains lipids red.
* Nile Blue A: Stains lipids blue or bluish-white.
* Fluorescein diacetate: Stains lipids green fluorescent.
Proteins:
* Biuret reagent: Turns from blue to purple in the presence of protein.
* Ninhydrin reagent: Turns from yellow to purple in the presence of protein.
* Xanthoproteic acid: Turns from yellow to orange in the presence of protein.
* Millon's reagent: Turns from colorless to red in the presence of protein.
* Folin-Ciocalteu reagent: Turns from yellow to blue in the presence of protein.