Definitions for maltose

maltose malt·ose

Spelling: [mawl-tohs]
IPA: /ˈmɔl toʊs/

Maltose is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in maltose (aelmost).

Definitions for maltose

noun

  1. a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 12 H 22 O 11 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.

Origin of maltose

First recorded in 1860-65; malt + -ose2

Examples for maltose

So, too, when glucose is ingested as such, it is converted by the glucose ferment into maltose in the stomach and intestines.

Weigh out French maltose, 40 grammes, and dissolve in the agar.

Of the higher sugars raffinose is fermented by juice from bottom yeast, but more slowly than cane sugar or maltose.

For the proper production of maltose and its assimilation a good venous blood, producing a maltose-forming ferment, is necessary.

The higher the percentage of maltose, the more laxative the food.

maltose or malt sugar is formed from starch in germinating seeds.

maltose is absorbed and assimilated, converted into glycogen.

The mixing of the raw flour with barley or other malt effects the conversion of the starch of the grain into maltose.

The enzyme of saliva converts starch not into glucose but into a more complex sugar to which is given the name of maltose.

The last is used to convert starch into maltose, the first is used to convert maltose into fermentable sugar.

Word Value for maltose
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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