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18 April, 00:08

Monosaccharides are called reducing Sugars but disaccharide are not why?

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  1. 18 April, 00:36
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    A reducing sugar is any sugar that is capable of acting as a reducing agent because it has a free aldehyde group or a free ketone group ... Ketoses must first tautomerize to aldoses before they can act as reducing sugars. The common dietarymonosaccharides galactose, glucose and fructose are all reducing sugars.
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