Fructose
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[edit] Name Variations
- granulated fructose
- fruit sugar
- levulose
[edit] About Fructose
Wikipedia Article About Fructose on Wikipedia
Fructose (or levulose) is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) found in many foods and one of the three most important blood sugars along with glucose and galactose. Honey; tree fruits; berries; melons; and some root vegetables, such as beets, sweet potatoes, parsnips and onions, contain fructose, usually in combination with sucrose and glucose. Fructose is also derived from the digestion of sucrose, a disaccharide consisting of glucose and fructose that is broken down by enzymes during digestion.
Fructose is often recommended for, and consumed by, people with diabetes mellitus or hypoglycemia, because it has a very low Glycemic Index (GI 23) relative to cane sugar (sucrose). However, this benefit is tempered by concern that fructose may have an adverse effect on plasma lipid and uric acid levels. The low GI is due to the unique and lengthy metabolic pathway of fructose, which involves phosphorylation and a multi-step enzymatic process in the liver. See health effects and glycation for further information.
[edit] Production of Fructose
[edit] Buying Fructose
[edit] Fructose Variations
[edit] Preparing Fructose
[edit] Cooking Fructose
[edit] Storing Fructose
[edit] Fructose Nutrition
[edit] Fructose Nutritional Research
[edit] Fructose Recipes
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