monosaccharide

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Fructose, a monosaccharide known as "fruit sugar," is a common dietary sugar found naturally in fruit, honey, and processed foods.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

Most monosaccharide names end with the suffix -ose.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

These carbohydrate chains may consist of 2–60 monosaccharide units and can be either straight or branched.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There are also strictly monosaccharide sugars like fructose, so a sugar can be either a monosaccharide or a disaccharide.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2016

Fructose.—The second member of the monosaccharide group is more or less associated with glucose in plant and fruit juices, and is used like that substance for the production of glycogen in the body.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.