Reducing vs Non reducing sugars ✔️✔️

Sugars are Carbohydrates. On the basis of chemical nature they are differentiated into Reducing sugars & Non reducing sugars,

✔️What are the differences between them?

It is a very common question among Chemistry & Biochemistry students. 

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✅ Here are the difference between Reducing & non reducing sugars under tabulated form.

Sl. No.	Characters	Reducing Sugars	Non reducing sugars
1	Presence of free Aldehyde/ Ketone group	Yes	No
2	Reducing agent	Yes	No
3	Mutarotation	Exhibit	Do not exhibit
4	Osazone formation	Yes	No
5	Form oximes with Hydroxylamine	Yes	No
6	Benedict reagent	Positive .Red Precipitate occur.	Negative
7	Fehling’s Reagent	Positive . Red Precipitate occur.	Negetive
8	Example	Monosaccharides: Glucose,Galactose,Ribose.   Disaccharides: Lactose, Maltose	All the di & polysaccharides except mentioned as example under reducing sugars.   Like, Sucrose, Trehalose etc.