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Which of the following is a reducing sugar?
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Although according to common names of sugars, those which have -ose ending are reducing like glucose, fructose, cellobiose, etc. Sucrose although has -ose ending is not a reducing sugar. Thus common names are not reliable indicators of the properties of sugars. Sucrose is 1, 1'-glycoside, hence non-reducing.
Which of the following statements is/are correct?
Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar. In sucrose, glucose is present in the pyranose from while fructose is present in the furanose form. In lactose, glucose is the reducing sugar
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