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Many sugars contain aldehyde groups. These can be chemically "reduced" to a less oxidized state, i.e., that of an alcohol. That is the reason for the terminology. The concepts of reduction and oxidation is a suitable one for college chemistry, but not for this forum. It takes more than a few words to explain. Simple reducing sugars are able to cause reduction of silver ions to silver metal and cause deposition of a silver mirror finish on the container holding them.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 9y agoA reducing sugar either has an aldehyde group available or is capable of readily forming one. Thus the aldehyde group allows the sugar to act as a reducing agent. That means it is capable of donating an electron. Thus the reducing sugar becomes oxidized.
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∙ 13y agoThe main function of sugar is to simply just make the food or a substance sweeter.
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What role does reducing sugars play in jam?
Reducing sugars in jam has two functions. The first function is that it helps the jam set and acts as a preservative.
Is glucose and fructose reducing sugars?
yes, both glucose and fructose are reducing sugars. but the sucrose is non-reducing sugar although it is formed from two reducing sugars.
When a non reducing sugar is tested with Benedict's reagent?
Non reducing sugars do not react with Benedict's reagent. After the test, sample without reducing sugars remains the same, blue.When reducing sugars are present in the sample, we can consider four results after the test is completed: a) green, low amount, that is 0.1 to 0.5% of reducing sugars in solution; b) yellow, low amounts of reducing sugars, 0.5 to 1.0%; c) orange, moderate content of reducing sugars, 1.0 to 1.5% of reducing sugars present; and c) brick red, large amount of reducing sugars in solution, 1.5 to 2.0%.
Which sugars are reducing?
glucose
What structural groups do all reducing sugars have in common?
All the reducing sugars have free Aldehyde or Ketone group.
Do fructose and glucose contain reducing sugars?
No, it is a polysaccharide and like other polysaccharides it is a non reducing sugar.
Is xylose a reducing sugar?
Ribose: Ribose is an Aldopentose sugar, and all aldose sugars are reducing sugars. The non-reducing sugars are ketose sugars which contain a ketone functional group. For ex: Ketose = Sucrose. For ex: Aldose = Glucose, Fructose, Lactose
Are glucose and fructose reduced sugars?
Glucose and fructose are reducing sugars.
Does banana have reducing sugars?
yes
What are the names of two non-reducing sugars?
The disaccharides Sucrose and Trehalose are both non-reducing sugars.
Does rice have reducing sugar?
Egg yolk has few reducing sugars as found in a biology experiment to find out if reducing sugars such as glucose were found in different foods.
Does bread contain non-reducing sugars?
no it does not
