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How does the sweetness of glucose compare with sucrose?

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To compare the sweetness of glucose with sucrose, it is standard practice to use sucrose as the reference point. In the context of sugar as a chemical compound, sucrose is assigned a sweetness value of 1.0.12

Compared to this standard, glucose is less sweet, typically rated with a relative sweetness of 0.5 to 0.6.1