Reducinf sugar

English translation: residual sugar

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English term or phrase:	Reducing sugar
Selected answer:	residual sugar
Entered by:	Empty Whiskey Glass

12:54 Nov 28, 2003

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Science - Wine / Oenology / Viticulture / Wine industry

English term or phrase: Reducinf sugar

Wine production.

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residual sugar

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Please read the link to find out more - briefly: sugar left over in wine at the end of the production process.
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reducin*g sugar (content)

Steffen Walter

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residual sugar

PAS

sugars which act as reducing agents (eg glucose, fructose, other monosaccharides)

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reducinf sugar reducin*g sugar (content)

Explanation:
typo: reducing the sugar content in wines, I suspect

Steffen Walter
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reducinf sugar

residual sugar

Explanation:
Please read the link to find out more - briefly: sugar left over in wine at the end of the production process.
HTH

Reference: http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/wine/index.ssf?DEF_ID=2...

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reducinf sugar sugars which act as reducing agents (eg glucose, fructose, other monosaccharides)

Explanation:
Googling on 'reducing sugar'gives further explanation.

reducing agent (Chem) = any substance that reduces another substance and is itself oxidised in the process. (See 'reduction')

My memory of organic chemistry is quite weak now, but more complex sugars, such as sucrose (common white sugar), do not act as reducing agents, and are therefore not reducing sugars. Monosaccharides, such as glucose, are simple sugars (ie their chemical structure is simple) and they have reducing properties.

In the production of alcohol, sugars are changed into alcohols by chemical reaction (eg by yeast fermentation and the action of enzymes), so the types of sugars present in the grapes is important.

The Net shows some of the tests used for detecting the presence and amount of reducing sugars, eg using a reagents such as Fehlings solution, which turns brick-red when added to a solution containing reducing sugars...

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