Also known as a monosaccharide, fructose is a natural sugar found in vegetables, fruits, and honey. Fructose occurs naturally in many fruits and several other plant foods as well. It is the sweetest ...

Polysaccharides are carbohydrate polymers in which monosaccharide ((CH2O)n) units are covalently joined by an O-glycosidic bond in either a branched or linear configuration. Polysaccharides serve ...

They are made from plants: maple and sweet potato. Acacia and multifloral honey mostly contain monosaccharides: fructose and glucose. In contrast, maple syrup mostly contains sucrose, with a small ...

Formaldehyde was converted to monosaccharides. This provides the basis for a model for the primordial origin of monosaccharides.