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DictionaryfructoseFruit sugar
noun

fructose

FRUK-tohs/ˈfrʌktəʊs/

A simple sugar found in fruit and honey.

Fresh fruit and honey both contain the simple sugar fructose.

Sliced ripe apple and pear beside honey jar, small white sugar crystals on a spoon with tiny functional label 'fructose'.
Etymology
fructLatinfruit, produce
+oseEnglishsugar-name ending

The name identifies fructose as a sugar found in fruit. Although -ose became a standard ending for sugar names, it did not originally mean “sugar.”

In context

CNA Insider7:21
Basically, they are simple sugars like fructose and glucose. Fructose is about 38%
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More examples

  • This chart lists the amount of fructose in each fruit.
  • The lab measures fructose levels in the honey sample.
  • Fructose tastes sweeter than glucose.

Similar words

fruit sugar
An everyday name for fructose, rather than its scientific name.