BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

BIOLOGY

MONOSACCHARIDES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which monosaccharide is the sweetest?
A
glucose
B
fructose
C
galactose
D
sucrose
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a simple ketonic monosaccharide and the sweetest sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fructose is the sweetest naturally occurring sugar, estimated to be twice as sweet as sucrose. Fructose is also derived from the digestion of sucrose, a disaccharide consisting of glucose and fructose that is broken down by glycoside hydrolase enzymes during digestion. Q.

Detailed explanation-3: -In dilute water solutions, fructose with 117 has a higher relative sweetness than sucrose (relative sweetness=100). In filling creams with high-sugar levels fructose can be recognized as much sweeter, so we find values from 110 to 170.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fructose is the sweetest sugar amongst all the given sugars. An estimation of concentration of sugar revealed that if sucrose has a sweetness of one, glucose will be 0.74 and fructose may count up to 1.7.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fructose is the “sweetest” of all sugars (i.e. with the highest intensity of sweetness) and it is most abundant in fruits and honey. On the contrary, galactose, the other monosaccharide, has low sweet intensity and can rarely be found free in foods.

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