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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose. It is found naturally in fruits and honey and produced artificially for use in the food industry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An amorphous saccharine substance, the chief constituent of honey, and produced by the action of ferments or dilute acids on cane-sugar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
equal mixture ofglucose andfructose formed by theenzymatic hydrolysis ofsucrose ; it is found inhoney and somefruits , and also producedindustrially .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose
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