Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A very sweet sugar, C6H12O6, occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient. Also called fruit sugar, levulose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In chem., sugar of fruit, or levulose (C6H12O6). It is found in honey and sweet fruits, and is one of the products of the inversion of cane-sugar. It usually exists as a colorless syrup, but can be crystallized. It is easily soluble in water and alcohol, and polarizes to the left. Also called
fruit-sugar and chulariose.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A monosaccharide ketose sugar, formula C6H12O6.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Chem.), rare Fruit sugar; levulose.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits
Etymologies
- From Latin fructus ("fruit") + -ose ("sugar") (derivation of sucrose). (Wiktionary)
- Latin frūctus, fruit; see fruit + -ose2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is high in fructose and very slow to crystallize.”
“Corn syrup enriched with fructose is then mixed with corn syrup high in glucose to produce the desired ratio of one to the other; some "high" fructose corn syrup preparations are higher in fructose than others.”
The Huffington Post: David Katz, M.D.: HFCS Name Change: Good, Bad or In Between?
“High fructose is not at all the same thing as all fructose.”
“But the replacement of sucrose with fructose (or, more accurately, HFCS) doesn't necessarily lead to a dietary increase in fructose, so I think that you may be barking up the wrong tree.”
“And fructose is sweeter than glucose or sucrose, so that less carbohydrate is needed for the same effect on the palate.”
“Levelheaded nutritionists like Nestle and Walter Willett, the author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, agree that more important than the rise of fructose is the invasion of cheap sugars into the American diet.”
“He got to the word fructose and made a very weird face ...”
“When we consume large amounts of fructose, which is basically an unregulated source of fuel for the liver, it is converted to both fat and cholesterol.”
“Whole fruits and vegetables contain a relatively small amount of fructose, which is packaged with fiber and healthy antioxidants and other micronutrients.”
“Also, when we consume large amounts of fructose, which is basically an unregulated source of fuel for the liver, it is converted to both fat and cholesterol.”
Dr. Nicholas Perricone: The Dieter's Dilemma Part 2: Sabotage Secrets Revealed
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fructose’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
silicon, silica, shrimp, shelve, shallot, serine, seedling, septic, secretin, seaweed, screening, Scomber and 1171 more...
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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AGRI - apiculture
lucerne, HMF, Heather, harvest, glucose, honey, fluid, Erica, Gaucho, microscopic, enzym, tea tree and 183 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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cblucy's list
Words I love and hate. You figure it out.
panty, cudgel, patina, pantaloon, curmudgeon, shekel, fructose, speculum, microscopic, iris, pallet, tubing and 1 more...
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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TECH - food processing
absorbent material, active agent, additive, animal fat, animal product, antibacterial, antifungal, bleacher, canned goods, cereal, coagulant, coffee substitute and 81 more...
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Gas-Inducing Foodstuffs
Foods that produce flatulence. List title a shameless filching of a fortuitous phrase yarb introduced in his definition of scotch egg. I know everyone has a few foods they avoid at certain times ...
scotch egg, cabbage, chili beans, garbanzo beans, chickpeas, hummus, pickled eggs, rutabaga, radish, jerusalem artichoke, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and 42 more...
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Innocent Words That Sound Naughty
intersects, sextet, bisects, sexagenarian, sexton, section, meatballs, titter, titular, frigate, fructose, Fukien and 4 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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supermarket words
fructose, aisle, hydrogenated, artificial, ethnic, organic, new, healthy, heart, fresh, gum arabic, riboflavin and 18 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Someone doesn't like fructose.... Sep 19, 2009
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How often do you see those three words strung together? Honestly, now? Sep 18, 2009
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