Biologically Active Substance
sucrose Audio
su·crose [ soo-krohs ]
Brand Names:
TootSweet
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Definitions related to sucrose:
  • A disaccharide consisting of glucose and fructose. The linkage is alpha with respect to the glucose and beta with respect to the fructose.
    CRCH Nutrition Terminology
    Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
  • A nonreducing disaccharide composed of GLUCOSE and FRUCTOSE linked via their anomeric carbons. It is obtained commercially from SUGARCANE, sugar beet (BETA VULGARIS), and other plants and used extensively as a food and a sweetener.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Nonreducing disaccharide, composed of glucose and fructose linked via their anomeric carbons.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Sucrose, organic compound, colourless sweet-tasting crystals that dissolve in water. Sucrose (C12H22O11) is a disaccharide; hydrolysis, by the enzyme invertase, yields "invert sugar" (so called because the hydrolysis results in an inversion of the rotation of plane polarized light), a 50:50 mixture...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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