{"id":638,"date":"2022-04-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=638"},"modified":"2022-04-10T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T10:00:00","slug":"57-benedicts-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"57- Benedict&#8217;s Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-638-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/45420963\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2022-3-4%2F100e717c-7b7a-6614-c998-0e7cd13ce2fc.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/45420963\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2022-3-4%2F100e717c-7b7a-6614-c998-0e7cd13ce2fc.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/45420963\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2022-3-4%2F100e717c-7b7a-6614-c998-0e7cd13ce2fc.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Today&#8217;s topic is a return to the world of biochemistry with a discussion of Benedict&#8217;s test- used to test for reducing sugars and, with some modifications, non-reducing sugars. We won&#8217;t be discussing the precise methodology- and the subtle differences in methods\/reagents between the sources I accessed- but we&#8217;ll discuss what exactly a reducing sugar is and introduce the topic of food tests along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Fullick A., Locke, J. and Bircher, P. (2015), A Level Biology for OCR A. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2) Hine, R. (2019), A Dictionary of Biology (Oxford Quick Reference), 8th edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press. 3) Thain, M. and Hickman, M. (2014), Dictionary of Biology (Eleventh Edition). London: Penguin Books Ltd. 4) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Benedict&#8217;s reagent (online) [Accessed 12\/03 and 02\/04\/2022]. 5) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Stanley Rossiter Benedict (online) [Accessed 12\/03\/2022].<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s topic is a return to the world of biochemistry with a discussion of Benedict&#8217;s test- used to test for reducing sugars and, with some modifications, non-reducing sugars. We won&#8217;t be discussing the precise methodology- and the subtle differences in methods\/reagents between the sources I accessed- but we&#8217;ll discuss what exactly a reducing sugar is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;57- Benedict&#8217;s Test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}