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fructose
chemical compound
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- Harvard Health Publishing - Abundance of Fructose Not Good for the Liver, Heart
- MedicineNet - How is Fructose Bad for You?
- European Food Information Council - What is Fructose and Is It Bad for You?
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - Biochemistry, Fructose Metabolism
- University of Florida - IFAS Extension - Facts about Fructose
- Healthline - Is Fructose Bad for You? The Surprising Truth
- Frontiers - Fructose: A Dietary Sugar in Crosstalk with Microbiota Contributing to the Development and Progression of Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease
Also known as: fruit sugar
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- stachyose
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The truth about high-fructose corn syrup and sugar
Explaining the chemical differences between high-fructose corn syrup and sugar.
See all videos for this articlefructose, a member of a group of carbohydrates known as simple sugars, or monosaccharides. Fructose, along with glucose, occurs in fruits, honey, and syrups; it also occurs in certain vegetables. It is a component, along with glucose, of the disaccharide sucrose, or common table sugar. Phosphate derivatives of fructose (e.g., fructose-1-phosphate, fructose-1,6-diphosphate) are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates.