dextrose

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A traditional Gatorade beverage contains glucose and dextrose, which are both known as simple sugars.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

The patterns in this image, called Fractals, are of Bacillus subtilis being grown on a dextrose agar plate.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2021

Tell-tale ingredients include “invert sugar, maltodextrin, dextrose, lactose, soluble or insoluble fibre, hydrogenated or interesterified oil”.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2020

His daughter arrived to find him hooked up to an IV bag of dextrose to raise his blood sugar, which had careened to 12 milligrams per deciliter of blood.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2019

Among them are the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch; mono-, tri-, and diglycerides; dextrose; lecithin; yellow corn flour; regular cornstarch; vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan