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THE ordinary form of most reducing sugars, such as α-glucose, β-fructose and α-galactose, becomes gradually less sweet after dissolution, and in the meantime the sweetness reaches a constant value, since the ordinary form is converted in part into the less sweet isomer, and finally an equilibrium is attained between the two isomers: α⇌β.
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Tsuzuki, Y., Kagaku (Science), 17, 342 (1947) (in Japanese).
Tsuzuki, Y., and Yamazaki, J., Biochem. Z., 323, 525 (1953).
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TSUZUKI, Y., MORI, N. Sweetness and Configuration in Rhamnose. Nature 174, 458–459 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174458b0
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