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Benedict’s test for glucose

A reducing sugar turns Benedict’s reagent brick red.

Topic: Organic chemistryGrade: 11Free

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What you do

  1. Add Benedict’s reagent to both tubes.
  2. Put tube 1 in the hot water bath (Apparatus → Water bath, about 80 °C).
  3. Put tube 2 in the water bath too. Starch is not a reducing sugar: what do you see?

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