EXPERIMENT NO.

2
CARBOHYDRATES

I. DATA TABLE
II. QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH

1. Explain why lactose and maltose differs from sucrose in its chemical
activity with Fehling’s, Benedict’s and using Seliwanoff’s reagents?
2. What products are formed when starch is slowly hydrolyzed?
 Whenever starch (polysaccharides) molecules
undergo hydrolysis, it forms either monosaccharides,
disaccharides or trisaccharides. The end products depends on
the strength of enzymes used and the common enzymes are,
α-Amylase, which produces the disaccharide maltose and the
trisaccharide maltotriose
3. Which carbohydrates can be given intravenously? Why not others?
 In a short review solutions of glucose, fructose and invertose
have been compared in regard to proteinsparing effects, side
effects and infusion rates. It is concluded that fructose alone
offers no advantage to glucose neither in the normal nor in the
stressed organism. Compared with pure glucose and fructose
solutions, higher amounts of carbohydrate can be administered
as invertose, without increasing the risk of side effects
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