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The major component of honey is
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The major component of honey is fructose (option 4). Honey is composed primarily of simple sugars, with fructose and glucose being the two principal monosaccharides present [2]. Among these, fructose typically predominates in most honeys and thus represents the single largest sugar fraction; this predominance contributes to honey’s characteristic sweetness and affects crystallization behavior [1]. Other sugars such as sucrose and maltose occur only in much smaller amounts (sucrose ~1% and other disaccharides/oligosaccharides making up a minor share) [1]. Therefore, fructose is the major sugar component overall.
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- [2] )00906-3.pdf
- [1] https://cdn.agclassroom.org/media/uploads/2017/11/07/Carbohydrates_and_the_Sweetness_of_Honey.pdf
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