From: poutnik4REMOVEnntp@CAPITALSgmail.com   
      
   Badbob  Wrote in message:   
   > On 10/15/2018 7:02 PM, Frank wrote:   
   >> On 10/15/2018 6:52 PM, Badbob wrote:   
   >>> Sugar molecules have lots of C-O-H on them. Does that mean they are   
   >>> all alcohols?  Trying to brush up on organic chemistry.   
   >>>   
   >>> Bob   
   >>   
   >> Sure, anything with C-O-H is an alcohol but these are a special class   
   >> also containing an aldehyde or ketone group and are all called   
   >> carbohydrates.  I worked once in a plant that hydrogenated sugars and   
   >> then with all C-O-H groups the products were called polyols.   
   >   
   >    Thanks   
   >   
   > What this is leading up to is...is there any fundamental difference   
   > between "natural" sugars and "alcohol" sugars?  They seem pretty much   
   > the same to me.   
   >   
   "Natural" sugars contain aside of several  alkohol groups  also a   
    ketone  or aldehyde group, that partly creates a cycle, reacting   
    with the far alcohol group.   
      
   Alcohol sugers do not have such groups. Some of them are used as   
    sweeteners, as human  enzymes cannot process them.   
      
   But some bacterias can, so  overused may cause problems.   
      
      
   --   
   Libor Striz aka Poutnik ( a pilgrim/wanderer/wayfarer)   
      
   "Humour is the only effective weapon against stupidity."   
   Miloš Forman   
      
      
   ----Android NewsGroup Reader----   
   http://usenet.sinaapp.com/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)