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No, it is not a reducing sugar. A reducing sugar needs to be in equilibrium with an open chain form so that the aldehyde can get oxidised. This only occurs in hemiacetal sugars. Glucoside has an aldehyde instead and so is not in equilibrium with an open chain form.

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