The occurrence of sucrose (mt 6.9–7.1 min) could be
explained as remaining after iso-propanol extraction as part
of the bulk of this disaccharide, the main component of
sugarcane juices, but this is not probable, since sucrose
would easily be hydrolyzed by the acid. More probably,
sucrose could be removed from sugarcane heterofructans
by incomplete acidic hydrolysis of the polysaccharide. The
same argument supports the interpretation that the largest
part of glucose, as the main component of the xanthan, was