What is non-reducing sugar?

Answer 1

Non-absorbable sugars are also called sugar alcohols. They are sweet-tasting, but are not readily absorbed from the intestine into the body. Most are manufactured for commercial use. Examples are non-caloric sweeteners, like sorbitol and mannitol, which are often used in candies and gums. Non-absorbable sugars may be prescribed as laxatives.

Answer 2

Answer
Reducing and Non-reducing Sugars:
Sugars which are capable of reducing the oxidizing agents Tollen's reagent (AgO), Fehling reagents (CuO) or Ferricynide in alkaline solution are called the Reducing Sugars. Examples include glucose, fructose, maltose and lactose.
Those sugars which are unable to reduce oxidizing agents such as those listed above are called non-reducing sugars. Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar.
Carbohydrates that can reduce oxidizing agents are reducing sugars. In the instance of disaccharides, structures that possess one free unsubstituted anomeric carbon atom are reducing sugars. The end of the molecule containing the free anomeric carbon is called the reducing end, and the other end is called the nonreducing end. So non-reducing sugars that cannot reduce oxidizing agents.

Answer 3

Non-reducing sugars are carbohydrates that do not have a free aldehyde or ketone group, so they do not react with reducing agents like Benedict's solution. They commonly exist as disaccharides and polysaccharides, such as sucrose, maltose, and starch. Non-reducing sugars require hydrolysis to break down into their monosaccharide components for detection by typical carbohydrate tests.

Answer 4

Nonreducing sugar is a carbohydrate that cannot be oxidized by another agent. These are grouped in with other hemiacetal or hemiketal groups.