what are reducing sugar?
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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.
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Carbohydrates which reduces Fehling's solution to red precipitate of Cu₂O or Tollen's reagent to metallic Ag are called reducing sugars. All monosaccharides ( both aldoses and ketoses ) and disaccharides except sucrose are reducing sugars.
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