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What are reducing sugars ?

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Reducing Sugar : The saccharides which reduce Fehling.s is solution and Tollen.s reagent are called reducing sugar.
For example : Reducing sugar contain `alpha`-hydroxy alelehyde or `alpha`-hydroxy ketone group.
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