Question

The major component of honey is
A) Glucose
B) Sucrose
C) Maltose
D) Fructose

Answer 1

Hint: From the word major component, we can understand that it is that component of honey which is in the largest amount and for the judgement of that we need to know the constituents of honey.

Complete answer:
We are well familiar that Honey is collected by honey bees when they suck nectar from flowers they collected in a honeycomb and then honey is further extracted from this. Now let us understand about the composition of honey. so, basically Honey consists of fructose, glucose, maltose and other sugar like sucrose along with some enzymes and water which are in these following quantities.
(i) Fructose =38.19%
(ii) Glucose=31%
(iii) Water = 17.20%
(iv) Maltose = 7.2%
(v) other sugars like sucrose = 3.2%
(vi) Enzymes = 2.21%
In the above-mentioned components glucose and Fructose are monosaccharides that means they are those sugars which cannot be hydrolyzed further into smaller components; they are composed of 3-7 carbon atoms and are called macromolecules. Whereas Sucrose and Maltose are disaccharides they are formed by two types of molecules. Sucrose, here mentioned is also known as cane sugar is made up of Fructose and glucose and the combination of maltose also known as malt sugar is of glucose and glucose.

Note: By looking at the composition of honey, we can clearly conclude that among all it's constituents, it is fructose which is present in the highest quantity in honey so the main constituent of honey is fructose.
So, the correct answer is option D.