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The reducing value of the blood or hæmolymph of insects is a very variable quantity, depending both on species and on the stage of the life-history1,2. However, all observations agree that the true blood sugar accounts for only a fraction, usually considerably less than 30 per cent, of the total reducing value. On the grounds that this fraction is yeast fermentable, and that in a few cases a glucosazone has been obtained, this sugar has been considered as glucose2–.
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LEVENBOOK, L. Fructose and the Reducing Value of Insects' Blood. Nature 160, 465 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160465a0
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