What are examples of reducing sugars?

Any sugar that can act as an reducing agent because of free ketone group or aldehyde group is called as reducing sugar. All monosaccharides are reducing sugars, along with some disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. read more

Question: For example, sucrose is a non-reducing sugar & maltose is a reducing sugar. Please explain. Answers: Reducing Sugars : Sugars that contain aldehyde groups that are oxidised to carboxylic acids are classified as reducing sugars. read more

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, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. read more