JEE Main Chemistry question

Many of the carbohydrates are sweet in taste because:

(A)They give sugars on hydrolysisCorrect
(B)Of covalent bonding
(C)Of electrovalent bonding
(D)Of coordinate bonding

Answer: (A)

Solution

Sweetness in carbohydrates arises from the presence of simple sugar units (mono- and disaccharides, or the sugars liberated on hydrolysing more complex carbohydrates), which interact with taste receptors. The nature of

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