monosaccharide
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Fructose, a monosaccharide known as "fruit sugar," is a common dietary sugar found naturally in fruit, honey, and processed foods.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
These carbohydrate chains may consist of 2–60 monosaccharide units and can be either straight or branched.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Sugars contain some of the functional groups we have discussed: Note the alcohol groups present in the structures and how monosaccharide units are linked to form a disaccharide by formation of an ether.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
There are also strictly monosaccharide sugars like fructose, so a sugar can be either a monosaccharide or a disaccharide.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2016
When completely hydrolyzed, they yield three molecules of monosaccharides; when partially hydrolyzed, one each of a disaccharide and a monosaccharide.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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