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Q. In which of following sets the carbohydrates are reducing sugar

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Solution:

A reducing sugaris 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.

Here maltose, lactose, fructose are reducing sugars. Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar.