Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C12H22O11, found in many plants but extracted as ordinary sugar mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets, widely used as a sweetener or preservative and in the manufacture of plastics and soaps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general name for the sugars identical in composition and in general properties with cane-sugar, having the formula (C12H22O11)n: same as
saccharose .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also
saccharose ,cane sugar , etc. At one time the term was used by extension, for any one of the class of isomeric substances (aslactose ,maltose , etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type; however this usage is now archaic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A
disaccharide with formula C12H22O11, consisting of two simple sugars,glucose andfructose ; normal culinarysugar
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, for one thing, high fructose corn syrup has a substantially worse effect on blood sugar than does the equivalent sweetness in sucrose from sugar cane.
Balkinization 2007
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Meanwhile, sucrose is simply consumed by all bacteria, Zehner said.
Beware Whey Low Steve Carper 2007
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Well, for one thing, high fructose corn syrup has a substantially worse effect on blood sugar than does the equivalent sweetness in sucrose from sugar cane.
Balkinization 2007
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Meanwhile, sucrose is simply consumed by all bacteria, Zehner said.
Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Carper 2007
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Just as sucrose is made of two simple sugars bound together, lactose is made of the two simple sugars glucose and galactose, bound together.
Archive 2006-03-01 Steve Carper 2006
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Just as sucrose is made of two simple sugars bound together, lactose is made of the two simple sugars glucose and galactose, bound together.
Lactose and Sugars Steve Carper 2006
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The sugars found in our drinks are made up of the sugars in fruit juice and sucrose, which is needed to ensure that our drinks taste great – without it, they would taste too sharp.
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The results are extremely concerning, but few commercial beverages are sweetened only with fructose; most are sweetened with sucrose, which is half glucose and half fructose.
Tim Harlan, M.D.: Sugary Drinks And Your Risk Of Disease M.D. Tim Harlan 2010
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The counterargument is that sucrose, which is half fructose and half glucose, occurs naturally in fruit, and humans have eaten it for thousands of years.
THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010
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The counterargument is that sucrose, which is half fructose and half glucose, occurs naturally in fruit, and humans have eaten it for thousands of years.
THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU Dr. Eric C. Westman 2010
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