JEE Main Chemistry question

Starch on hydrolysis by a dilute inorganic mineral acid gives:

(A)Sucrose
(B)GlucoseCorrect
(C)Fructose
(D)maltose

Answer: (B)

Solution

Starch is a polymer of -D-glucose units; complete hydrolysis with a dilute mineral acid cleaves all the glycosidic bonds and drives the reaction to its end point, yielding D-glucose as the sole product. Maltose is only an

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