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Kind of sugar
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fructose
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context carbohydrate English) A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C 6 H 12 O 6 .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sugar found in fruit, 1857, coined in English from Latin fructus "fruit" (see fruit ) + chemical suffix -ose (2).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits [syn: fruit sugar , levulose , laevulose ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fructose , or fruit sugar , is a simple ketonic monosaccharide found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose . It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose , that are absorbed ...
Usage examples of fructose.
But even complex carbohydrates like bread and potatoes have a high glycemic index and trigger a rush of insulin, while simple carbohydrates like fructose do not.
Ryan took plenty of liquids with extra glucose and fructose to help the muscles rehabilitate.
Others are special flavors like a pineapple-lemon hard-shelled fruit that looks sort of like a honey-dew, and the main crop looks like a blue rubber coconut and is a nearly pure saturated solution of fructose inside, which they sell for industrial use, as a sweetener and as a feedstock for grain alcohol.
The rumpled surface engorged with saline and fructose and salicylic acid, responding to the rich mix of hormones and growth factors.
Two of the meals consisted of oatmeal, with the only difference being that one meal consisted of instant oatmeal flavored with glucose, and the other consisted of steel-cut oats flavored with fructose.
But even complex carbohydrates like bread and potatoes have a high glycemic index and trigger a rush of insulin, while simple carbohydrates like fructose do not.
The zoologist continued, "Then there're traces of formaldehyde, phenol, fructose, dextrose, cellulose.