Please, I need to know the exact amount of glucose, sugar and starch in some solid food sample and I would prefer a spectroscopic method. Who knows?

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The level of glucose, sugar and starch in a freshly prepared 'kpokpo-garri' from cassava tuber is required. I would prefer using spectrometric method but I am not sure. Can anyone help? Or recommend an alternative quantification method(s) for this work?

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