FRUCTOSE & XYLITOL: The Turku dental studies
Abstract
When a solution of cane sugar (sucrose) is warmed with dilute acids it is rapidly hydrolysed to a mixture of two simpler sugars viz. glucose and fructose. Glucose resembles cane sugar in being a dextrorotary compound, but fructose is so strongly laevorotary that the equimolecular mixture of glucose and fructose obtained by hydrolysis rotates the plane of polarization to the left. For this reason the above process is known as the inversion of cane sugar and the mixture of glucose and fructose so obtained as invert sugar. The breakdown of sucrose in this way will be better understood by referring to Figure 1.
Citation
Sharman, I.M. (1976), "FRUCTOSE & XYLITOL: The Turku dental studies", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 76 No. 2, pp. 20-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058650
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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