Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A monosaccharide sugar, C6H12O6, occurring widely in most plant and animal tissue. It is the principal circulating sugar in the blood and the major energy source of the body.
- n. A colorless to yellowish syrupy mixture of dextrose, maltose, and dextrins containing about 20 percent water, used in confectionery, alcoholic fermentation, tanning, and treating tobacco. Also called starch syrup.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The name of a group of sugars having the formula. C6H12O6, which may be regarded as aldehydes of hexatomic alcohols. They are less sweet than cane-sugar. One or more of them constitute the sugar of fruits, and they are produced from cane sugar, dextrine, starch, cellulose, etc., by the action of acids, certain ferments, and other reagents, and by processes going on in living plants. The two best-known varieties, distinguished by their action on polarized light, are dextroglucose, dextrose, or grape-sugar, which turns the plane of polarization to the right, and levoglucose, levulose, or fruit-sugar, which turns it to the left.
- n. In com., the sugar-syrup obtained by the conversion of starch into sugar by sulphuric acid, the solid product being called grape-sugar, starch-sugar, diabetic sugar, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A simple monosaccharide (sugar) with a molecular formula of C6H12O6; it is a principle source of energy for cellular metabolism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also
dextrose ,grape sugar ,diabetic sugar , andstarch sugar . See Dextrose. - n. (Chem.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.
- n. The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy
Etymologies
- French, from Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleukos, "must, sweet wine") related to γλυκύς (glykys, "sweet"); note: -ose comes from glucose, not the other way round (Wiktionary)
- French, from Greek glukus, sweet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Because of this, glucose is classified as a reducing sugar.”
“Monitoring your diet by tracking food is the most important way to prevent spikes in glucose levels for a diabetic and prevent type 2 diabetes for anyone predisposed," she says.”
“A: No. Blood glucose is measured in milligrams per deciliter of blood.”
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“On the pro side -- in addition to fewer calories, they don't promote tooth decay and they don't get completely absorbed by the body so the conversion to glucose is slower, requiring little or no insulin to be metabolized.”
“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.”
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“The good industry boys are just pre-chewing it for you so its already in glucose/fructose form, without the tiresome breaking it down from sucrose.”
High-Fructose Corn Syrup “Prompts More Weight Gain” Than Sugar | Lifehacker Australia
“Some other glucose is converted to another simple sugar, galactose.”
“Either way, failure to import glucose from the blood leaves high levels of glucose in the blood – high blood sugar.”
“Some diabetics require sugar if their glucose is too low but craving sugar by itself does not equal diabetes.”
“Pre-diabetes, also called impaired fasting glucose, is diagnosed if the reading is between 100-125 mg/dL.”
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