Definition of Fruit sugar

1. Noun. A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits.

Exact synonyms: Fructose, Laevulose, Levulose
Generic synonyms: Ketohexose

Medical Definition of Fruit sugar

1. D-fructose. See: fructose. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruit Sugar

fruit flies
fruit fly
fruit grower
fruit juice
fruit loops
fruit machines
fruit of one's loins
fruit of the poisonous tree
fruit of the union
fruit pigeon
fruit pigeons
fruit punch
fruit salad
fruit salads
fruit sugar (current term)
fruit tree
fruit trees
fruitage
fruitages
fruitarian
fruitarianism
fruitarians
fruitbat
fruitbats
fruitcakes
fruiteater
fruiteaters
fruited

Literary usage of Fruit sugar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biennial Report by Oregon Board of Horticulture (1905)
"For instance, dried figs contain 50 per cent of fruit sugar ; dried apples 43 per ... fruit sugar being already predigested by the actinic rays of the sun, ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1859)
"J—Both grape sugar and fruit sugar are capable of discharging the colour of indigo in the presence of alkalies, even at the ordinary temperature, ..."

3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"The Contraband Trade in Tea, Wine, Fruit, Sugar, and Molasses. The Measures of the Ministry to suppress it. One fourth part of the Signers of the ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"The crystals formed resemble those of cane sugar, but the product itself remains a higher grade of dry fruit sugar. Dr. Hayes also states, that the sorghum, ..."

5. A Guide to the practical examination of urine for the use of physicians and by James Tyson (1895)
"... be allowed much stress as compared with the exact chemical process above described. Fruit-sugar, or Lai'ulose. Fruit-sugar sometimes occurs in urine, ..."

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