noun. A monosaccharide sugar, C₆H₁₂O₆, occurring widely in most plant and animal tissue. It is the principal circulating sugar in the blood and the major energy source of the body.

noun. A colorless to yellowish syrupy mixture of dextrose, maltose, and dextrins containing about 20 percent water, used in confectionery, alcoholic fermentation, tanning, and treating tobacco.

noun. The name of a group of sugars having the formula. C₆H₁₂O₆, which may be regarded as aldehydes of hexatomic alcohols.

noun. In com., the sugar-syrup obtained by the conversion of starch into sugar by sulphuric acid, the solid product being called grape-sugar, starch-sugar, diabetic sugar, etc.

noun. A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

noun. Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

noun. The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

noun. A simple monosaccharide (sugar) with a molecular formula of C6H12O6; it is a principle source of energy for cellular metabolism.

noun. a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy

"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."

dried glucose  levoglucose  

glucose syrup  glucoside  isoglucose  

aldohexose  hexose  monosaccharide  

D-Glucose  D-glucose  L-Glucose  L-glucose  blood glucose  

alcohol  calcium  carbohydrate  cholesterol  dextrose  

blood sugar  corn sugar  grape sugar  

dextrose  diabetic sugar  grape sugar  starch sugar