galactose

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This enzyme enables the bacteria to generate galactose directly from glucose.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Another enzyme produced by the bacteria, known as arabinose isomerase, then converts the galactose into tagatose.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

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

Following her illness, Mills was diagnosed with galactosaemia, a rare genetic disorder affecting up to one in 45,000 babies which prevents her body from turning galactose into glucose.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

On hydrolysis, the saponins yield a variety of sugars,—glucose, galactose, arabinose, and sometimes fructose, and even other pentoses—and a group of physiologically active substances, known as "sapogenins."

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred