Glucose, fructose, and galactose are the simplest forms of sugar and are called monosaccharides. Sucrose, lactose, and maltose are called disaccharides and are made by combining two monosaccharides.

Fructose is found naturally in fruits, honey and some vegetables, along with glucose. The exact proportion of fructose to glucose varies a bit from food to food, but it’s pretty much a 50:50 ...

It’s not as famous as glucose or as controversial as fructose. But galactose plays a powerful role early in life — especially in nursing infants and in plants.

Fructose is considerably sweeter than other naturally-occurring sugars, with fructose being over 1.5 times as sweet as sucrose, over twice as sweet as glucose, and six times sweeter than galactose.

According to the American Heart Association, daily consumption of added sugars (glucose, galactose, fructose, sucrose) for children aged 2-18 years should be ≤ 25 g. Most of the children in our ...

Low-calorie sweetener derived from lactose gets manufacturing boost from yeast Date: April 15, 2019 Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Summary: The quest to satisfy the sweet tooth ...