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
By convention, the carbon atoms in a monosaccharide are numbered from the terminal carbon closest to the carbonyl group.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Sugars contain some of the functional groups we have discussed: Note the alcohol groups present in the structures and how monosaccharide units are linked to form a disaccharide by formation of an ether.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
The monosaccharide mumbo jumbo you seem to be touting sounds like so much pseudoscience.
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.
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