disaccharide

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Maltose, which is found in breakfast cereals and breads, is a disaccharide of two glucose molecules.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

Lactose, or milk sugar, is a disaccharide made of two simple sugars – glucose and galactose – in a 1:1 ratio.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024

However, lactose, being a disaccharide, could not diffuse through the dialysis bag.

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

Recent studies indicate that the two sugar molecules are separately united to the other constituents, rather than united with each other in the disaccharide relationship.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred