Fructose [noun]
Definition of Fructose:
organic compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Synonyms of Fructose:
Opposite/Antonyms of Fructose:
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Sentence/Example of Fructose:
Granulated sugar is the default sweetener, but glucose, fructose, honey and corn syrup may also be added.
They can even put the glucose into other sugars — such as fructose — to make a plant’s fruit sweet.
Fructose is one of the sweetest of sugars, and helps to give honey its great sweetness.
There are two common in foods, glucose and fructose; a third, galactose, is derived from more complex sugars.
The fructose is precipitated as a saccharate, which is filtered, suspended in water and decomposed by carbon dioxide.
The form described above is laevo-rotatory, but it is termed d-fructose, since it is related to d-glucose.
Like glucose and fructose, galactose seems to promote the production of glycogen in the body.
Three sugars of this type are known, only one (fructose) being common in plants; the others are of only theoretical interest.
Fructose (levulose, honey sugar, or "diabetic" sugar) occurs along with glucose in the juices of many fruits, etc.
Sorbose is a crystalline solid, which is not fermentable by yeast, but which otherwise closely resembles fructose.