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THE amount of carbohydrate in royal jelly, determined in terms of total reducing substances, has been investigated. The results are seen in tabular form in a review by Johansson1 and show concentrations of carbohydrate in fresh royal jelly ranging from 8.3 to 29.1 per cent by weight. During one of these investigations2 an additional test was conducted, which was based on selective fermentation procedures, whereby a sample of native royal jelly, having a total reducing sugar concentration of 29.1 per cent (calculated in terms of glucose), was found to have an apparent glucose concentration of 12.2 per cent, a fructose concentration of 15.2 per cent and a concentration of 1.7 per cent for non-fermentable carbohydrates.
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SIMO, K., CHRISTENSEN, G. Quantitative Analysis of Sugars in Royal Jelly. Nature 196, 1208–1209 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961208a0
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