maltose

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Male cockroaches’ gooey “gift” to females contains a sugar called maltose, which quickly breaks down into glucose when it comes in contact with saliva in the female’s mouth.

From Science Magazine

Instead of producing nuptial gifts containing more maltose, they produced ones that contained a more complex sugar, maltotriose.

From New York Times

In plants, sugars come in the form of fructose, sucrose and maltose, while lactose is a sugar found in milk.

From Salon

They included brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar and sucrose.

From Washington Post

For the maltose liquid, bring all the ingredients to the boil in a large pan.

From The Guardian