What is the differnce between Benedicts test for Glucose Sucrose?What differnce in colour change do we Observe in both.Are they same?

Benedict's test is for reducing sugars like glucose and fructose. It is not meant for disaccharides like sucrose which do not possess free aldehyde or ketone group. So glucose gives red colour with Benedicts solution while sucrose shows no change. 

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