Pharmacologic Substance
fructose
fruc·tose [ fruhk-tohs, froo k-, frook- ]
Brand Names:
Emetrol
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A hexose with a keto group, also called a keto-hexose. Aside from the keto group, each of the 5 remaining carbons has one hydroxyl group, in the S,R, and R configuration counting from the first hydroxyl containing asymmetric carbon next to the ketone in the straight chain (=Fisher) projection. All other carbons are bound to hydrogen exclusively. Occurs mostly as furan and rarely as pyran or straight chain. When fructose forms a ring an additional ""anomeric"" asymmetric carbon is created which is denoted as ""alpha"" or ""beta"". For isomers see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fructose.CRCH Nutrition TerminologyCancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
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A monosaccharide in sweet fruits and honey that is soluble in water, alcohol, or ether. It is used as a preservative and an intravenous infusion in parenteral feeding.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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A simple sugar found in corn syrup, honey, and many sweet fruits.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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Six carbon sugar that is a component of a number of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, generally the sweetest and most readily absorbed, found naturally in sweet fruits and honey.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Fructose, a member of a group of carbohydrates known as simple sugars, or monosaccharides. Fructose, along with glucose, occurs in fruits, honey, and syrups; it also occurs in certain vegetables. It is a component, along with glucose, of the disaccharide sucrose, or common table sugar. Phosphate...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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