Ketose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 72 anagrams from letters in ketose (eekost).
First recorded in 1900-05; ket- + -ose2
It is a ketose sugar, reduces Fehling's solution, forms the same osazone as glucose, and is easily fermentable by yeast.
When ketose monosaccharides are submitted to similar oxidation processes, they are broken down into shorter chain compounds.