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The selective adsorption method for determining sugars of honey (1,2) has recently been adopted first action by the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (3). In this procedure honey sugars are divided by charcoal column adsorption before analysis into three groups: monosaccharides, disaccharides, and higher sugars. Each fraction is analyzed for individual sugars by modifications of
conventional volumetric methods.
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