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Definition of Simple sugar
1. Noun. A sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates.
Specialized synonyms: Triose, Tetrose, Pentose, Hexose, Aldose, Ketose
Generic synonyms: Carbohydrate, Saccharide, Sugar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simple Sugar
Literary usage of Simple sugar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1918)
"A substance like cane sugar which on hydrolysis splits to two molecules of simple
sugar is called a disaccharide or disaccha- rose (" double sugar "). ..."
2. Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Henry Clapp Sherman (1921)
"A substance like cane sugar which on hydrolysis splits to two molecules of simple
sugar is called a disaccharide or disaccha- rose (" double sugar ..."
3. Text-book of Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses by Diana Clifford Kimber, Carolyn Elizabeth Gray (1918)
"The number of molecules of simple sugar resulting from the hydrolysis of any
polysaccharid would depend upon the value of n. Fats. ..."
4. Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical Anatomy by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"... which contain only one molecule of simple sugar: C,H,2O,. i. ... of simple
sugar, and having the formula C^H^O,,, are 'the anhydrids of the members of ..."
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