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because Orange Juice contains fructose sugar. Fructose is a monosaccharide which gives a positive reaction on benedict's test. changing color indicates that the fructose gave a positive reaction.

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I'm not positive on the answer, but its has something to do with the starch reducing the cupric ions of the Benedict reagent, and forming cuprous oxide, Cu2O, which is the yellow-red precipitate that is formed in a positive test The Benedict's test allows us to detect the presence of reducing sugars (sugars with a free aldehyde or ketone group). All monosaccharides are reducing sugars; they all have a free reactive carbonyl group. Some disaccharides have exposed carbonyl groups and are also reducing sugars. Other disaccharides such as sucrose are non-reducing sugars and will not react with Benedict's solution. Starches are also non-reducing sugars. The copper sulfate (CuSO4) present in Benedict's solution reacts with electrons from the aldehyde or ketone group of the reducing sugar to form cuprous oxide (Cu2O), a red-brown precipitate. CuSO4 Cu++ + SO4--

2 Cu++ + Reducing Sugar Cu+

(electron donor) Cu+ Cu2O (precipitate) The final color of the solution depends on how much of this precipitate was formed, and therefore the color gives an indication of how much reducing sugar was present.

(http://www.biosci.ohiou.edu/introbioslab/Bios170/170_2/benedict.htm)

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it doesn't change color, it changes other elements color!

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Iodine -- it is used as a starch indicator.

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The high presence of the common sugar glucose causes the color change from red to brown.

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The color is blue.

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