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Why are polysaccharides not sweet in taste?
Polysaccharides are defined as polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketone which on hydrolysis yield many units of monosaccharides.
I got one answer(to my question above) as:
On our tongue, we have things ...
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Do L-sugars (enantiomers of natural sugars) have a sweet taste?
I'm wondering about how L-sugars taste. They are obviously not digestible by humans, but what do they taste like? If they are sweet, too, why isn't sucrose with the unnatural chirality used as a zero-...
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