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A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.

Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc.

The trade name of a sirup, obtained as an uncrystallizable reside in the manufacture of glucose proper, and containing, in addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

A primary source of energy for living organisms. It is naturally occurring and is found in fruits and other parts of plants in its free state. It is used therapeutically in fluid and nutrient replacement.

The form of sugar existing in many animal and vegetable organisms; produced for commercial use by the action of sulphuric acid on starch.

Sugar of grapes and other fruits.

A sugar less sweet than cane-sugar, found largely in nature, and made artificially by treating with sulfuric acid any substance containing starch.

The grape sugar of plants and animals.

Grape, Fruit, Starch, and Honey sugar. A variety of sugar, that occurs naturally in many vegetable juices, and in honey. Compared with cane sugar, it is much less soluble in water, and less disposed to crystallize; and, when injected into the blood-vessels, does not pass off to the like extent by the kidneys. Diabetic, Urinary, and Hepatic sugar appear to have the same chemical composition.

Grape-sugar, C6H12O6, from honey, fruit, etc. ; commercially prepared from maize ; found in the animal body.

Syn.: grape sugar, dextrose, dextroglucose. A white crystalline substance, CH2OH (CHOH)4CHO, easily soluble in water, belonging to the class of simple carbohydrates, occurring in the juices of most sweet fruits, in honey, and, in minute proportions, in the healthy animal organism. In certain pathological conditions, e. g., diabetes mellitus, it is found in considerable quantity by methods of estimating glucose in the urine : the reduction, the fermentation, the polarimetric, and the glucosazone tests. The fermentation test is the most conclusive. Glucose is used in solution in bouillon for testing the gas formation produced by various bacteria.