Qualitative Analysis of Carbohydrates - MeitY OLabs

This video channel is developed by Amrita University's CREATE http://www.amrita.edu/create ▶ For more Information @ http://amrita.olabs.co.in/?sub=73&brc... ▶ Online Labs for School lab Experiments (Olabs) http://www.olabs.edu.in/ ▶ Learn more about Amrita University http://www.amrita.edu ▶ Subscribe @    / amritacreate     / onlinelabs   Copyright © 2013 Amrita University Developed by CDAC Mumbai & Amrita University under research grant from Department of IT, Government of India Qualitative Analysis of Carbohydrates :- Carbohydrates are most abundant organic compounds found in living organisms and are composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Carbohydrates act as the primary source to provide energy for functioning of living organisms. These are called carbohydrates because they can be considered as hydrates of carbon. Generally carbohydrates are defined as polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones or the compounds which produces such products on hydrolysis. Carbohydrates are called saccharides. Some of them have sweet taste and are called sugars. This video explains some simple tests of carbohydrates.