Definition of "sucrose" [su•crose]

• A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C12H22O11, found in many plants but extracted as ordinary sugar mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets, widely used as a sweetener or preservative and in the manufacture of plastics and soaps. Also called saccharose. (noun)

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• "Meanwhile, sucrose is simply consumed by all bacteria, Zehner said."
• "Well, for one thing, high fructose corn syrup has a substantially worse effect on blood sugar than does the equivalent sweetness in sucrose from sugar cane."
• "Just as sucrose is made of two simple sugars bound together, lactose is made of the two simple sugars glucose and galactose, bound together."