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PREVIOUSLY, we reported1 that fifteen honey samples produced mainly in the Tohoku region of Japan were analysed, and sugar components of one kind of honey (Lespedeza bicolor) were fractionated by chromatography, using a carbon : ‘Celite’ column, and the sugars in each fraction were estimated. Glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, melezitose, eight di- or tri-saccharides and nine higher oligosaccharides were detected by paper chromatography, and fifteen spots of them contained ketose.
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WATANABE, T., ASO, K. Isolation of Kojibiose from Honey. Nature 183, 1740 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831740a0
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