In message <[log in to unmask]>, Robert Mann
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>>The result is a more stable, higher-solid product which increases the
>>efficency of the ripening process.

>The sucrose molecule is split, by adding a water molecule's constituent 3
>atoms (a process called hydrolysis), to produce one molecule of glucose and
>one of fructose.

>        I can make little of the final sentence in the quote.  Sucrose is
>not inherently unstable under the conditions of ripening; and 'the
>efficiency of the ripening process' means little to me; it sounds as if
>written by an economist.
I wonder if the original statement referred to the removal of one
molecule of water per molecule of sucrose which means less for the bees
to remove by evaporation.
--
James Kilty