levulose
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Such is the influence of diastase or invertin, which in the seeds of plants brings on the conversion of starch into sugar and of cane-sugar into glucose and levulose.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
We ourselves have contributed a link in this chain of evidence connecting the furfuroids of the plant with levulose or other keto-hexose.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
Lemons differ from oranges in containing more citric acid and less sucrose, levulose, and dextrose.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
Carrots contain about half as much dry matter as potatoes, and half of the dry matter is sugar, nearly equally divided between sucrose and levulose, or fruit sugar.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
This difference seems to be due to the varying proportion of natural glucose, which will crystallize, and levulose, or mellose, which will not crystallize.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
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