Glucose

Glucose

a simple sugar which is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates.

a syrup containing glucose and other sugars, made by hydrolysis of starch and used in the food industry.

Fructose

Fructose, or fruit sugar, is a simple ketonic simple sugar found in many plants, where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose. It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides, along with glucose and galactose,

Galactose

Galactose sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a monosaccharide sugar that is about as sweet as glucose, and about 65% as sweet as sucrose.

Sucrose

Sucrose is common sugar. It is a disaccharide, a molecule composed of two monosaccharides: glucose and fructose. Sucrose is produced naturally in plants, from which table sugar is refined.

Maltose

also known as maltobiose or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α bond. In the isomer isomaltose, the two glucose molecules are joined with an α bond.