Park et al. (2005)
mentioned that the content of free sugars in the fermented mash
of glutinous rice included maltose, glucose, fructose and sucrose,
and their contents were 2.03 g/100 g, 2.52 g/100 g, 0.18 g/100 g and
0.25 g/100 g, respectively, however, the free sugars in the fermented
mashes of non-glutinous rice only included maltose and
glucose, and the contents were 0.95 g/100 g and 1.95 g/100 g,
respectively. In terms of the reducing sugar contents of turbid rice
wine mashes, the glutinous rice cultivars showed higher contents
than those of non-glutinous rice. These may potentially explained
the slightly lower alcohol yields for glutinous rice than for nonglutinous
rice.