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Carbohydrates > Sugars > Disaccharides > Sucrose
Carbohydrates > Polysaccharides > Oligosaccharides > Disaccharides > Sucrose

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Sucrose  

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Entry terms

  • Saccharose

Note

  • do not confuse with SUCRASE; table sugar is DIETARY SUCROSE; sucrose density gradient is CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT & ignore sucrose

Scope note

  • A nonreducing disaccharide composed of GLUCOSE and FRUCTOSE linked via their anomeric carbons. It is obtained commercially from SUGARCANE, sugar beet (BETA VULGARIS), and other plants and used extensively as a food and a sweetener.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013395

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