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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Reducing sugars are carbohydrates?

OpenStudy (aaronq):

yeah, more specifically, those that do not have their anomeric carbon "locked" in an acetal bond (i.e. not in equilibrium between the ring and linear form (mutarotation)).

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