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Does bread have reducing sugars?
If yes, why did my benedict test result in negative?​

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Answer:

Sucrose contains two sugars (fructose and glucose) joined by their glyosidic bond in such a way as to prevent the glucose isomerizing to aldehyde, or the fructose to α-hydroxy-ketone form. Sucrose is thus a non-reducing sugar, which does not react with Benedict's reagent.

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