ABSTRACT

C18H32O16 504.441 Occurs in cotton seeds, sugar beet and manna. Widely distributed in plants, esp. in the seeds. Sweet taste. Sweetness 0.48 x sucrose. Solid. Mp 1188 (anhyd.) Mp 1308. [a]D +123 (c, 2 in H2O) (anhyd.)(83.4). Sweet taste. Sweetness 0.48 x sucrose. Does not reduce Fehling’s soln. Invertase or raffinase gives 6-O-a-DGalactopyranosyl-D-glucose, G-34 and Fructose.