Food Tests - Benedict's Test for Reducing Sugar

Reactivo de Benedict: para qué sirve, componentes, preparación

Dr Ali on Instagram: "Look how the colour changes The Benedict’s test is a simple chemical test used to detect reducing sugars, like glucose, in a solution. When Benedict’s reagent is heated with such sugars, it changes colour from blue to green, yellow, or brick-red depending on the sugar concentration."

#31 Food test 2 - Benedict's test for Reducing Sugars

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• Benedict’s test - chemical test used to detect the presence of (reducing sugars) in a solution. Reducing sugars are carbohydrates that have the ability to reduce certain chemicals, such as copper ions, in a chemical reaction. Benedict’s reagent is a blue solution that contains copper ions, and when it is mixed with a solution containing reducing sugars and heated, it undergoes a color change from blue to green, yellow, orange, or even red, depending on the amount of reducing sugar present. • H