Crossword-Solution: FRUCTOSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fructose | n. | Fruit sugar; levulose. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “FRUCTOSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| levulose | 1 answer |
| laevulose | 1 answer |
| The sweetest of sugars | 1 answer |
| Sugar in much corn syrup | 1 answer |
| Source of added calories in many processed foods | 1 answer |
| Mangoes are high in this sugar | 1 answer |
| SWEET fruit glucose | 1 answer |
| one sugar | 3 answers |
| SUGAR of fruit | 3 answers |
| CARBOHYDRATES, building block of | 3 answers |
| BUILDING block of carbohydrates | 3 answers |
| MONOSACCHARIDES in body | 5 answers |
| fruit sugar | 5 answers |
| hexose | 6 answers |
| Kind of sugar | 6 answers |
| monosaccharide | 10 answers |
| Carbohydrate | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FRUCTOSE (5)
Furthermore, Cohen and Mendel demonstrated that in their experiments pure lactose neither prevented nor cured scurvy while Harden and Zilva could find no antiscorbutic value in either cane sugar, fructose, or sirup.
Eaten as such, or produced as the result of digestive action upon cane sugar, fructose is changed into glycogen, chiefly upon entering the liver, and for this reason will not be found to enter largely into the blood of the general circulation.[3] Honey is the most abundant source of fructose in nature.
Many of the sweet fruits are rich in this form of sugar; pineapples are said to contain at least half of their solids in sucrose; and although other fruits and vegetables do not contain so high a percentage of this sugar, oranges, peaches, apricots, dates, raisins, prunes, carrots and sweet potatoes contain goodly quantities, which are associated with glucose and fructose.
The inverting enzyme (invertase) of yeast and sucrase of the intestinal juice, convert sucrose to fructose and glucose, in which forms it is absorbed into the portal blood.
Emil Fischer has succeeded, however, by a long and round-about process which need not be discussed in detail here, in converting the artificial hexose into glucose and fructose, the optically-active sugars which occur naturally in plant tissues.
Quotes with FRUCTOSE (3)
For Americans, Acts 16:9 is the high-fructose corn syrup of Bible verses--an all-purpose ingredient we'll stir into everything from the ink on the Marshall Plan to canisters of Agent Orange. Our greatest goodness and our worst impulses come out of this missionary zeal, contributing to our overbearing (yet not entirely unwarranted) sense of our country as an inherently helpful force in the world. And, as with the apostle Paul, the notion that strangers want our help is sometimes a delusion.
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.
Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2008–2019).