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This paper describes a procedure for determining sucrose in honey without its preliminary separation. Interference from the large excess of glucose is removed by treating with glucose oxidase-catalase. and then the glucose from invertase hydrolysis of sucrose is measured. Sucrose is difficult to measure in honey because of its low concentration and the presence of at least 24 other sugars. Standard deviation between duplicates for 50 honey samples containing from 0.06 to 10.6% sucrose was 0.19; no known honey sugars interfered.
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