Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Hexahydric alcohol extracted from sorb apples, used under regulations in Germany to sweeten sparkling wines for diabetics. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Synthetic sweetening agent used instead of sugar. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | A polyhydric alcohol with about half the sweetness of sucrose. Sorbitol occurs naturally and is also produced synthetically from glucose. It was formerly used as a diuretic and may still be used as a laxative and in irrigating solutions for some surgical procedures. It is also used in many manufacturing processes, as a pharmaceutical aid, and in several research applications. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
 Structure formula |
Sorbitol is also produced by the body. Too much sorbitol in cells can cause damage. Diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy may be related to too much sorbitol in the cells of the eyes and nerves.
from the NIH's Diabetes dictionary
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sorbitol."
Crosswords: SORBITOL |
| Specialty definitions using "SORBITOL": Aldose Reductase Inhibitor ♦ Meglumine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SORBITOL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (E420 i, E420i, sorbitol), Spanish (sorbitol). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The sugars that cause gas are raffinose, lactose, fructose, and sorbitol. (references) | |
The evidence for both sorbitol and xylitol is positive, although the evidence for xylitol is stronger. (references) | ||
Sorbitol - Sorbitol is a sugar found naturally in fruits, including apples, pears, peaches, and prunes. (references) | ||
Business | Therefore, China needs to import $100 million worth of food additives every year. These imports include sorbitol, dextrin and dematured starch, polyols, lysine, glutamic acid, MSG, propylene glycol, and enzyme preparations, among others. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SORBITOL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SORBITOL" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SORBITOL": sorbitol-containing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
sorbitol | 217 |
sorbitol side effects | 7 |
mix sorbitol | 3 |
sorbitol 70 | 3 |
solution sorbitol | 3 |
atkins diet sorbitol | 3 |
pregnancy sorbitol | 2 |
laxative sorbitol | 2 |
alimentos com sorbitol | 2 |
aspartame sorbitol | 2 |
70 solution sorbitol | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SORBITOL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sorbitol, E420. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sorbitol, E420i, E420 i. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sorbitoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sorbitol, sorbite, E420i, E420 i. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sorbit (E420 i, E420i), E420 (E420 i, E420i). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σορβιτόλη (E420 i, E420i), σορβίτης, σορμπίτης, Ε420 (E420 i, E420i). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sorbitolo (E420 i, E420i), sorbite, E420i (E420 i, E420i), E420 i (E420 i, E420i). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orbitolsay sorbitol (E420 i, E420i), sorbina, E420 (E420 i, E420i). (various references) sorbitol (E420 i, E420i). (various references) sorbitol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SORBITOL": sorbitols. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bristol, strobil. | |
-2 letters: bistro, broils, oboist, orbits, robots, triols. | |
-3 letters: birls, blots, boils, bolos, bolts, boors, boost, boots, borts, brios, brits, broil, broos, lirot, lobos, loots, loris, lotos, obits, oboli, obols, olios, orbit, riots, robot, roils, roost, roots, rotis, rotls, rotos, sotol, stool, tirls, tiros, toils, tools, toros, torsi, torso, triol, trios, trois. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-l-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: sorbitols. | |
+2 letters: bryologist, politburos, potboilers. | |
+3 letters: biocontrols, blastoporic, bootlickers, bryologists, postorbital, tourbillons, tribologies, tribologist. | |
+4 letters: astrobiology, bloodthirsty, boisterously, borosilicate, elaborations, embryologist, laboratories, obliterators, robustiously, strobilation, tourbillions, tribologists, urbanologist. | |
+5 letters: bibliolatrous, borosilicates, cryobiologist, embryologists, malabsorption, obliterations, observational, strobilations, timberdoodles, trophoblastic, urbanologists. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
