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Trehalose is a non-reducing sugar because of the orientation of the second glucose molecule. This orientation places this glucose's anomeric, or "first" carbon directly in the 1,1-glycosidic bond. Because it is preoccupied, or "busy", it does not have any capabilities as a reducing sugar in oxidation-reduction reactions.

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