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Grape sugar   /greɪp ʃˈʊgər/   Listen
Grape sugar

noun
1.
An isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits.  Synonyms: dextroglucose, dextrose.






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"Grape sugar" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cane and grape sugar are distinguished by the following difference in their elements, ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... derivatives. Cellulose, as we can see from the symbol, C{6}H{10}O{5}, is composed of the three elements of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. These are present in the same proportion as in starch (C{6}H{10}O{5}), while glucose or grape sugar (C{6}H{12}O{6}) has one molecule of water more. But glucose is soluble in cold water and starch is soluble in hot, while cellulose is soluble in neither. Consequently cellulose cannot serve us for food, although some of the vegetarian animals, notably the goat, have a digestive ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson

... into the body. Some of these are of animal and some of vegetable origin—but except the sugar found in milk, the only ones commonly consumed are those derived from cane, beets, and fruits; the sugar from the first two is known as cane sugar or dextrose, and that from the latter as grape sugar or glucose. Like albumins they may be eaten without having been previously cooked, and are unique in that they undergo no chemical change whatever as a result of ordinary ...
— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris

... Discovered Substance in Urine.—A substance possessing greater reducing power than grape sugar found in ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 • Various



Words linked to "Grape sugar" :   dextroglucose, glucose



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