How can we say this is a reducing sugar?

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Reducing sugars are those that can reduce tollen reagent and fehling solution.
In this First carbon contaon -OH group which can reduce tollens and fehlings.
So it is a reducing sugar.
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carbon no. 1 of II alpha-DGlucose has one valency as - OH and other as - OR. It means it is a hemiacetal which can reduce Tollens' reagent and Fehlings solution. So it is a reducing sugar.
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