The chief form of this carbohydrate is known as levulose, or fruit sugar.
The chief nutritive element in both prunes and apricots, of course, is fruit sugar.
There are about twenty-five stages or forms of dextrine between raw starch and digested starch or fruit sugar.
Moreover, fruit sugar appears to be more wholesome than that formed from starch.
fruit sugar n.
See fructose.
