levulose

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The chief form of this carbohydrate is known as levulose, or fruit sugar.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

This difference seems to be due to the varying proportion of natural glucose, which will crystallize, and levulose, or mellose, which will not crystallize.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

The important members of the second class are grape sugar, or dextrose, and fruit sugar, or levulose, both of which are found in fruits and in honey.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Some are coiled to the right and others to the left; and it is remarkable that, like dextrose and levulose, their juices are optically the reverse of each other when studied by polarized light.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette

It is a mixture of cane sugar and invert sugars, as levulose and dextrose.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry