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Agriculture · Q892

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 892

Q892

Sweetest sugar in fruit is

A.
Sucrose
B.
Glucose
C.
Fructose
Answer
D.
None of these

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The sweetest sugar in fruit is fructose.
Fructose is also known as “fruit sugar” because it primarily occurs naturally in many fruits. It also occurs naturally in other plant foods such as honey, sugar beets, sugar cane and vegetables. Fructose is the sweetest naturally occurring carbohydrate and is 1.2 - 1.8 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar).