Definitions for fructoses

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fructoses fruc·tose

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

IPA: /ˈfrʌk toʊs, ˈfrʊk-, ˈfruk-/

Fructoses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 477 anagrams from letters in fructoses (ceforsstu).

Definitions for fructoses

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 fructoses

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

Examples for fructoses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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