Definition of "fructose" []

• A very sweet sugar, C6H12O6, occurring in many fruits and honey and used as a preservative for foodstuffs and as an intravenous nutrient. Also called fruit sugar, levulose. (noun)

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• "Corn syrup enriched with fructose is then mixed with corn syrup high in glucose to produce the desired ratio of one to the other; some "high" fructose corn syrup preparations are higher in fructose than others."
• "It is high in fructose and very slow to crystallize."
• "High fructose is not at all the same thing as all fructose."