Free Sugars of Black Tea

Abstract

It was confirmed, by the application of the cutting method of paper chromatograms, that fructose 0.7%, glucose 0.5%, arabinose 0.4%, sucrose 0, 6%, maltose 0, 5%, raffinose 0.1%, stachyose 0.1%, inositol 0.5% and two unknown sugaralcohol 0.06%, 0.1% existed in free form in black tea (Shizuoka) respectively.