Definitions for fructose

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fructose fruc·tose

Spelling: [fruhk-tohs, froo k-, frook-]

IPA: /ˈfrʌk toʊs, ˈfrʊk-, ˈfruk-/

Fructose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 373 anagrams from letters in fructose (ceforstu).

Definitions for fructose

noun

1. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.

Origin of fructose

First recorded in 1860-65; fruct- + -ose²

Examples for fructose

fructose is one of the sweetest of sugars, and helps to give honey its great sweetness.

None of the sweeteners people eat are 100 percent fructose, which was used in the Oregon study and several others.

For the structural (stereochemical) relations of fructose see Sugar.

The osones from glucose, mannose, and fructose are identical.

Every fructose molecule in sucrose, in contrast, is bound to a glucose.

There are two common in foods, glucose and fructose; a third, galactose, is derived from more complex sugars.

Slator supposes that glucose and fructose form the same compound with the enzyme.

HFCS contains at most 55 percent fructose and in some forms only 43 percent; almost all the rest is glucose.

When HFCS is made from cornstarch, the fructose molecules are not bound to other sugar molecules.

"It's evidence that fructose and glucose elicit opposite responses in the human brain," says Purnell.