noun
- Plural of levulose; a simple sugar (fructose) found in fruits and honey, used in food and pharmaceutical applications.
Usage: chemistry; biochemistry; technical term
Examples
- Levuloses are commonly found in ripe fruits and are sweeter than glucose.
- The food industry uses levuloses as a sweetening agent in many products.
- Levuloses are metabolized differently than other sugars in the human body.
- Honey contains high concentrations of levuloses and glucose.
- Biochemists study the properties of levuloses to understand carbohydrate metabolism.