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A reducing sugar is a type of sugar with a ketone or aldehyde group. This allows the sugar to act as a reducing agent, for example in the Maillard reaction.
Reducing sugars include fructose, glucose, galactose, and lactose. Significantly, sucrose is not a reducing sugar.
Benedict's reagent is used to determine if a reducing sugar is present.
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