Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Any of a class of sugars, including lactose and sucrose, that are composed of two monosaccharides.
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- n. Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
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Examples
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They are generally linked together and bonded into what is known as a disaccharide.
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Do the labeling directives require that it be indicated if the disaccharide is lactose?
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Plain table sugar, sucrose, is a disaccharide, which is a sugar made of two sugar molecules.
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Lactose is a disaccharide, meaning it is made up of two basic sugar molecules, a galactose molecule bonded to a glucose molecule.
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The FDA noted that "the saccharide composition (glucose to fructose ratio) of HFCS is approximately the same as that of honey, invert sugar and the disaccharide sucrose (table sugar)."
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Maltose is a disaccharide made of two glucoses linked together.
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Lactose is a disaccharide made from glucose combining with galactose.
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Sucrose is a disaccharide made from glucose combining with fructose.
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Lactose is a disaccharide, a complex sugar made up of two simple sugars, glucose and galactose.
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Lactose milk sugar is a disaccharide – a sugar composed of two sugar molecules – made of galactose and glucose.
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