what is 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. All monosaccharides are reducing sugars, along with some disaccharides, some oligosaccharides, and some polysaccharides.
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Sugars that contain aldehyde groups that are oxidised to carboxylic acids are classified as reducing sugars.
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