What are the similarities between lactose and sucrose?

Lactose and sucrose are both common kinds of sugar that feature prominently in the typical American diet. read more

Differences between lactose and sucrose: Lactose is a milk sugar while sucrose is a common table sugar. Lactose is made up of glucose and galactose while sucrose is made up of glucose and fructose. Lactose is hydrolysed by lactase enzyme while sucrose is hydrolyzed by sucrase/invertase. read more

• Sucrose is the abundant sugar in fruits and vegetables, whereas lactose is abundant in milk. • Lactose is a reducing sugar, whereas sucrose is not. • Therefore, sucrose doesn’t answer to the Benedict’s test o Fehling’s test. read more

Lactose intolerance results from an inability to break lactose into its constituent components; it's a result of insufficient lactase production, where lactase is the enzyme used to digest lactose. Sucrase deficiency results in sucrose intolerance, where sucrase is the enzyme that digests sucrose. read more