levulose
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- nonlevulose adjective
Etymology
Origin of levulose
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The important members of the second class are grape sugar, or dextrose, and fruit sugar, or levulose, both of which are found in fruits and in honey.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.
It is a mixture of cane sugar and invert sugars, as levulose and dextrose.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry
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
Of special interest, in its bearings on this point, is the direct transformation of levulose into furfural derivatives, which takes place under the action of condensing agents.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by Cross, C. F.
Glucose, or invert sugar, the principal member of the second class, consists of two distinct kinds of sugar, —dextrose and levulose.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips
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