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

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

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

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

When completely hydrolyzed, they yield three molecules of monosaccharides; when partially hydrolyzed, one each of a disaccharide and a monosaccharide.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred