Fructose

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  • noun. A very sweet sugar, C6H12O6, occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In chem., sugar of fruit, or levulose (C6H12O6).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Fruit sugar; levulose.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits
  • Word Usage
    "Corn syrup enriched with fructose is then mixed with corn syrup high in glucose to produce the desired ratio of one to the other; some "high" fructose corn syrup preparations are higher in fructose than others."
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    levulose