Which sugar is called invert sugar? Why is it called so? 

<p>This is a Short Answer Type Questions as classified in NCERT Exemplar</p><p>Invert sugar is another name for sucrose. Sugar beet sugar is a colourless, crystalline, and sweet substance made from sugar beets. It is very water soluble and has a dextrorotatory aqueous solution [α]D=+66.5? When cane sugar is hydrolyzed with dilute acids or the enzyme invertase, it creates an equimolar mixture of D− (+)− glucose and D− (−)− fructose. Sucrose is dextrorotatory as a result, and hydrolysis produces dextrorotatory glucose and laevorotatory fructose. Fructose's specific rotation is greater than that of glucose. As a result, the ensuing solution is laevorotatory in nature, having a rotational axis of The reaction is known as inversion, and the mixture of D− (+)− glucose and D− (−)− fructose is known as invert sugar, because the sign of rotation changes from dextro before hydrolysis to laevo after hydrolysis by (−39.9? ).</p>

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