Why sucrose fermentate faster than glucose?

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Glucose is a single chain, fructose is 2 carbon rings attached by an oxygen atom. Is it not easier to split 2 stable rings at an oxygen (to give 2 OH groups) than it is to start carving up a straight chain molecule?

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