Is glucose-fructose a disaccharide?

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Java script Dude - 02 Feb 2005 04:46 GMT

I have seen many manufacturers have glucose-fructose on the labels for
products. I know that saying glucose/fructose would be one or the other
but in this case they hyphen should mean that they are binding the
glucose and fructose molecules.
Is that the case and if so why dont they just say sugar?

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Eric Bohlman - 02 Feb 2005 10:59 GMT

> I have seen many manufacturers have glucose-fructose on the labels for
> products. I know that saying glucose/fructose would be one or the other
> but in this case they hyphen should mean that they are binding the
> glucose and fructose molecules.
> Is that the case and if so why dont they just say sugar?

I'd interpret it as saying that the product may contain varying amounts of
glucose, fructose, and sucrose, depending on which sources of them happened
to be cheaper at the time the particular batch was made.

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