Specific Determination of Sucrose in Honey

Published in: 1976

MAGII505 JWW:RS 8/4/76

 

Excerpt:

Sucrose is determined in honey without separation from other sugars by measurement with a glucose oxidase reagent of glucose produced by invertase hydrolysis. The large excess of interfering glucose is first destroyed by a glucose oxidase-catalase reagent. None of the sugars known to occur in honey interfere. Although the new procedure is more suitable for routine use, results do not differ significantly from the selective adsorption method.

 

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