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AP EAMCET · Chemistry · Chemistry in Everyday Life

Which of the following chemicals can be added for sweetening of food items at cooking temperature and does not provide calories?

  1. A Sucrose
  2. B Glucose
  3. C Fructose
  4. D Sucralose
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(D) Sucralose

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Out of sucrose, glucose, fructose and sucralose only sucrose and sucralose are sweetening agents. Sucrose is a natural sweetener but it aids to calorie intake. Sucralose is trichloro derivative of sucrose. It is an artificial sweetening agent which is stable at cooking…