levulose
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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 Rufus Phillips Williams
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 Francis M. Walters
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
In the juice of grapes there is from 10 to 15 per cent or more of sugar, as sucrose, levulose, and dextrose.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
If we assume that such groups are derived ultimately from levulose, we have to account for the detachment of the methyl group.
From Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 by C. F. Cross
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