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Underestimation of carbohydrates by sugar alcohols in classical anthrone-based colorimetric techniques compromises insect metabolic and energetic studies
Mélanie J.A. Body, Jérôme Casas, Jean-Philippe Christidès, David Giron
The paper shows that sugar alcohols are underestimated by anthrone-based methods, leading to errors in estimating total sugars in mixtures.
DOI 10.1101/322123