disaccharide
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Glucose, galactose, and fructose are common monosaccharides, whereas common disaccharides include lactose, maltose, and sucrose.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Those carbohydrates—called FODMAPs, for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols—can cause bloating when they ferment in the gut.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2018
Instead, it’s fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols, or FODMAPS.
From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2015
Fodmaps is an acronym for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols, sugars that draw water into the intestinal tract.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2014
The disaccharides of Type 2, since they contain no potentially active aldehyde group, do not reduce Fehling's solution, nor form osazones; neither do they exhibit mutarotation.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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Biochemistry
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