monosaccharide
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Vu also recommended using an invert sugar, which is a liquid mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
Honey, made from nectar by honeybees, is primarily a mixture of glucose and fructose monosaccharides with some maltose, sucrose and other carbohydrates.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024
High fructose corn syrup, also used in processed foods, is a mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024
Glucose, galactose, and fructose are common isomeric monosaccharides, whereas sucrose or table sugar is a disaccharide.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
All such monosaccharides, being alcohol-aldehydes, can easily be reduced to the corresponding polyatomic alcohols, containing the same number of carbon atoms as the original monosaccharides, each with one OH group attached to it.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
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