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Definition of Invert sugar
1. Noun. A mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose.
Definition of Invert sugar
1. Noun. An equal mixture of glucose and fructose formed by the enzymatic hydrolysis of sucrose; it is found in honey and some fruits, and also produced industrially. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Invert sugar
1. Subjected to chemical inversion: inverted. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invert Sugar
Literary usage of Invert sugar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On the Specific Rotatory Power of Cane and invert sugar. By ALFRED H. AI.LEN, FC8.
The angular rotation produced by a plate of quartz of 1 mm. in thickness ..."
2. A Handbook of Sugar Analysis: A Practical and Descriptive Treatise for Use by Charles Albert Browne (1912)
"The milligrams of invert sugar, corresponding to this weight of copper, multiplied
by the factor 0.95 gives the milligrams of sucrose. ..."
3. Food Chemicals Codex: First Supplement to the Fifth Edition by Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Institute of Medicine (U. S.) (2006)
"invert sugar is marketed as invert sugar Syrup and contains dextrose ...
REQUIREMENTS Labeling Indicate the percentages of sucrose and invert sugar. ..."
4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"In the tables following, the absence of saccharose is assumed except in the two
columns under invert sugar, where one for mixtures of invert sugar and ..."
5. American Druggist (1890)
"It was, however, found that it could not easily be obtained of uniform composition,
and that it acted too slowly upon invert sugar. H. Ost has, however, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"invert sugar is prepared by the action either of aci to which, no doubt, the
popularity of this class of beverage i or of yeast on cane sugar. ..."
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