fructose
n. uncountablen. a type of natural sugar found in fruits and honey. It is often used as a sweetener in many processed foods and drinks.
n. a simple ketonic monosaccharide found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose.
Fructose is the main sugar found in apples and pears.
Many food manufacturers use high-fructose corn syrup because it is cheaper and sweeter than standard table sugar.
While naturally occurring in fruit, the excessive consumption of refined fructose has been linked by some researchers to an increased risk of metabolic disorders in modern diets.
From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).
Uncountable when referring to the substance in general; can be countable when referring to different chemical types or varieties.