Fructose

Definition: Fructose

Fructose

Noun

1. A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits.

Specialty Definition: Fructose

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	Is present in sweet fruits and in honey; commercially produced by hydrolysis of inulin, a substance found in the tubers of the dahlia and the Jerusalem artichoke; especially suitable for use by diabetics. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A type of sugar found in many fruits and vegetables and in honey. Fructose is used to sweeten some diet foods. It is considered a nutritive sweetener because it has calories. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Fructose

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Structure formula of fructose
Fructose, or levulose, is the form of sugar found in fruit and honey. It is a laevorotatory monosaccharide with the same empirical formula as glucose but with a different structure. Although fructose is a hexose (6 carbon atoms), it generally exists as a 5-membered hemiketal ring (a furanose).

All fruit naturally contains a certain amount of fructose (often together with glucose), and it can be extracted and concentrated to make an alternative sugar.

Fructose is often used in food products designed for people with diabetes or who have problems with hypoglycaemia, because it is metabolised more slowly than cane sugar (sucrose) and is sweeter, so it has a smaller effect on blood-sugar levels. However, some people can react badly to fructose so it is not an option for those who need to restrict sucrose intake.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fructose."

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Synonyms: Fructose

Synonyms: fruit sugar (n), laevulose (n), levulose (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fructose

English words defined with "fructose": inulin, invert sugar ♦ monosaccharide, monosaccharose ♦ simple sugar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fructose": Fructokinases, Fructosamine, Fructose Intolerance, Fructose-1,6-Diphosphatase Deficiency, Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase, Fructosediphosphates ♦ Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase ♦ High-fructose corn syrup ♦ Leuconostoc, levulinic acid ♦ Marketing quotas. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fructose" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (fructose), Manx (fructose), Portuguese (fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), levulose).

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Commercial Usage: Fructose

Domain	Title
Books	Control of Fructose Metabolism in the Perfused Liver (reference) Cooking With Fructose (reference) Diet Away Your Stress, Tension, and Anxiety: The Fructose Diet (reference) Dr. Cooper's Fabulous Fructose Diet (reference) Fructose Polymers in Plants and Micro-Organisms (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Fructose

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The fiber in complex carbohydrates-grain, fruit, and vegetables-can reduce the body's absorption of fructose, even from fruit which is naturally high in the sugar. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..
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Non-Fiction Usage: Fructose

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, fructose still has 4 calories per gram, as much as table sugar. (references)
		The sugars that cause gas are raffinose, lactose, fructose, and sorbitol. (references)
		Fructose is a special type of sugar that is slowly absorbed into the system. (references)
Economic History	Turkey	There has also been significant expansion of production capacity for starch and high fructose corn syrups. (references)
	Mexico	The most significant areas of friction involve trucking, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and a number of other agricultural products. (references)
Political Economy	MEXICO	Products subject to these duties are listed in the March 2, 2001, edition of the Diario Oficial (Mexico's equivalent of the Federal Register) and include pork, beef, apples, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), liquid soda, hydrogen peroxide, ammoniac sulphate, gasoline additives, cristal polysterene, polycloride (PVC), bonded paper, corrugated rods, and unfinished steel tubes. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Fructose

"Fructose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fructose" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	23	72,767

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Fructose

Expressions using "fructose": fructose ( C6 H12 06 ) ♦ Fructose Intolerance. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "fructose": fructose-1,6-biphosphate, fructose-6-phosphate, Fructose-Bisphosphatase, Fructose-Bisphosphate, Fructose-Bisphosphate Aldolase.
	Ending with "fructose": D-fructose.
	Containing "fructose": Glutamine-Fructose-6-Phosphate Transaminase (Isomerizing).
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fructose

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
fructose	193	fructose sugar	3
high fructose corn syrup	100	allergy fructose	2
fructose intolerance	36	blood fructose sugar	2
high fructose	10	fructose glucose sugar	2
fructose crystalline	7	allergy corn fructose high syrup	2
fructose glucose	7	fructose malabsorption	2
fructose compounding	6	diabetes fructose	2
hereditary fructose intolerance	5	fructose sweetener	2
corn fructose syrup	4	diet fructose	2
fructose in manufacturer powder usa	4	corn fructose health high risk syrup	2
fructose recipe	4	fructose fruit	2
fructose intolerant	3	fructose high syrup	2
fructose structure	3	corn fructose high obesity syrup	2
corn fructose health high syrup	3	fructose granulated	2
consumption fructose high syrup world	3	fructose liver	2
fructose sugar type	3	fructose intolerance symptom	2
		corn danger fructose high syrup	2
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Modern Translation: Fructose

Language		Translations for "fructose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏سكر الفاكهة (levulose), ‏الفركتوز سكر العسل. (various references)

Chinese		果糖. (various references)

Danish		fruktose (fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), frugtsukker (fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), fructose (fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), laevulose (fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Dutch		fructose (fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), vruchtesuiker (fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), levulose (fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Finnish		hedelmäsokeri (fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), levulose). (various references)

French		fructose (fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), fruit sugar). (various references)

German		Fruchtzucker (d-fructose, fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Greek		φρουκτόζη (d-fructose, fructose ( C6 H12 06 ), fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Indonesian		fruktosa. (various references)

Italian		fruttosio (d-fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		果糖 (fruit sugar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かとう (base, excessive, exorbitant, flexible, fruit sugar, inferior, light case of smallpox, low grade, lower class, sweetened, sweetening, vulgar). (various references)

Korean		과당. (various references)

Manx		fructose. (various references)

Pig Latin		uctosefray

Portuguese		frutose,levulose (d-fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), frutose, ,D-frutose (d-fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose), ,açúcar de frutos (d-fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Romanian		fructozã (levulose). (various references)

Russian		фруктоза (fruit sugar, fruit-sugar). (various references)

Spanish		fructosa (d-fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose, levulose). (various references)

Swedish		fruktsocker (fruit sugar), fruktos (fruit sugar). (various references)

Thai		น้ำตาลฟรุกโตส ซึ่งมีอยู่ในผลไม้และน้ำผึ้ง. (various references)

Ukrainian		фруктоза. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fructose

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fructus. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Fructose

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fructose": fructoses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fructose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frontosas, frutose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fructose"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fructose" (pronounced fru"ktō's)
3	-t ō' s	Altos, comatose.
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Anagrams: Fructose

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: couters, focuser, refocus, scouter.
	-2 letters: cerous, corset, coster, course, courts, couter, crofts, crouse, cruets, cruset, curets, eructs, escort, fetors, foetus, forces, forest, fortes, foster, fresco, fucose, ouster, outers, rectos, rectus, recuts, routes, scoter, sector, softer, source, souter, stoure, truces.
	-3 letters: ceros, cores, corse, coset, cotes, court, crest, croft, cruet, cruse, crust, cures, curet.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-f-o-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: confuters, fructoses, fruticose.
	+2 letters: cofeatures, confitures, forecourts.
	+3 letters: cafetoriums, fluorescent, lactiferous, undercrofts.
	+4 letters: counterfeits, counterfires, counterflows, counterfoils, discomfiture, fluorescents, postfracture.
	+5 letters: counterforces, counteroffers, discomfitures, floricultures, fractiousness, functionaries, manufactories, motherfuckers, postfractures, putrefactions.
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