glucose and fructose react with seliwanff reagent the final product obtained in which colour
Answers
Seliwanoff's test is a chemical test which distinguishes between aldose and ketose sugars. A mixture of concentrated HCl and resorcinol of 3ml is added to the sugar. Then the solution is boiled for little time. If it is a ketose sugar like fructose and sucrose is the solution turns cherry red .
Explanation:
glucose
The products of sucrose decomposition are glucose and fructose, both of which can be detected by Benedict's reagent as described above. Starches do not react or react very poorly with Benedict's reagent due to the relatively small number of reducing sugar moieties which occur only at the ends of carbohydrate chains.
fructose
Sucrose gives a positive test as it is a disaccharide consisting of fructose and glucose. Generally, 6M HCl is used to run this test. Ketose get dehydrated faster and hence they give the test faster. Aldoses react very slowly and give faint colors.