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A reducing sugar is any sugar that is capable of acting as a reducing agent because it has a free aldehyde group or a free ketone group. All monosaccharides are reducing sugars, along with some disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. The monosaccharides can be divided into two groups: the aldoses, which have an aldehyde group, and the ketoses, which have a ketone group. Ketoses must first tautomerize to aldoses before they can act as reducing sugars. The common dietary monosaccharides are galactose, glucose and fructose are all reducing sugars. Sucrose is a disaccharide. It is composed of each one of the glucose and fructose molecules joined together by$\alpha -\mathrm{1,2}$glycosidic bond. It is an example of non-reducing sugars.