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levulose

levulose

8.6
A simple sugar found in honey and ripe fruit called fructose
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛv.juː.loʊs/
  • Archaic
translation icon : levulosa
  • Honey contains a high amount of levulose, making it sweeter than many other natural sugars.

Examples

  • The scientist analyzed the fruit and confirmed the presence of levulose among its natural sugars.

  • Some food labels list levulose as an ingredient, especially in fruit-based products.

  • Honey contains a lot of levulose.

  • Many fruits are rich in levulose.

  • Honey contains a high amount of levulose, making it sweeter than many other natural sugars.

  • The scientist analyzed the fruit and confirmed the presence of levulose among its natural sugars.

  • Some food labels list levulose as an ingredient, especially in fruit-based products.

Synonyms

fructose
vslevulose
  • Specialized
49 4.1

A simple sugar in honey and ripe fruit that people use to make food sweet

is the alternative technical name for the same sugar
fruit sugar
vslevulose
  • Specialized
2.7

A natural sugar found in ripe fruit and honey

is the common descriptive term for that sugar rather than the scientific name

Surface Forms

levulose singular
levuloses plural

Morphology

levulose = levo (opaque) = levo + levul + ose

The name is a specialized chemical formation ('levo-' + a sugar suffix) whose meaning ('a sugar that is levorotatory' = fructose) is not derivable by an average B1 learner from the parts.

Etymology

The word levulose comes from Latin levus meaning 'left' and the sugar ending -ose, like in glucose and sucrose. In simple tests it makes light turn to the left, so levulose is a 'left‑turning' sugar — another name for fructose, the common sugar in fruit and honey.