FOOD CHEMISTRY
CARBOHYDRATES PROTEINS AND LIPIDS
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Question
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The digestion of sucrose (table sugar) results in what two monosaccharides?
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Fructose and glucose
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Maltose and glucose
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Glucose and galactose
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Galactose and fructose
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Sucrose is a disaccharide and is easily split by hydrolysis into the two monosaccharides (hexoses) glucose and fructose (eqn (1)).
Detailed explanation-2: -The most common disaccharide is sucrose, or table sugar, which is composed of the monomers glucose and fructose.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sucrose is a disaccharide. It is made up of two monosaccharide i.e glucose and fructose.
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