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    A disaccharide (also called a double sugar or biose) is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage. Like monosaccharides...
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    chemical groups: monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides. Monosaccharides and disaccharides, the smallest (lower molecular...
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  • FODMAPs or fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols are short-chain carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed in the small...
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    Sweetness Lactose Disaccharide 0.16 Maltose Disaccharide 0.33 – 0.45 Trehalose (α,α-trehalose) Disaccharide max. 0,45 Isomaltulose Disaccharide 0.40 - 0.50...
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  • hydrolases, enzymes that break down certain types of sugars called disaccharides into simpler sugars called monosaccharides. In the human body, disaccharidases...
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    Maltose (category Disaccharides)
    (/ˈmɔːltoʊs/ or /ˈmɔːltoʊz/), also known as maltobiose or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed from two units of glucose joined with an α(1→4) bond. In the isomer...
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    sugars. Disaccharides are formed from two monosaccharides and can be classified as either reducing or nonreducing. Nonreducing disaccharides like sucrose...
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    completely removes the molasses from cane juice or beet juice to give the disaccharide white sugar, sucrose. It has a purity higher than 99.7%. Its molecular...
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    Dextrose – same as glucose, dextrose is an alternative name of glucose Disaccharide – also known as double sugar, it is made when two monosaccharides (aka...
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    mucopolysaccharides are long, linear polysaccharides consisting of repeating disaccharide units (i.e. two-sugar units). The repeating two-sugar unit consists of...
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    Sugar (section Disaccharides)
    include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double sugars, are molecules made of two bonded monosaccharides;...
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    the glycosidic bond of a disaccharide is broken into two monosaccharides is termed hydrolysis. The best-known disaccharide is sucrose or ordinary sugar...
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  • In enzymology, a lipid-A-disaccharide synthase (EC 2.4.1.182) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction UDP-2,3-bis(3-hydroxytetradecanoyl)glucosamine...
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    synovial HA averages about 7 million Da per molecule, or about 20,000 disaccharide monomers, while other sources mention 3–4 million Da. The average 70 kg...
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  • The enzyme pectate disaccharide-lyase (EC 4.2.2.9) catalyzes the following process: (1,4-α-D-galacturonosyl)n = (1,4-α-D-galacturonosyl)n–2 +...
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  • of the reducing power of dextrose which has a DE of 100. Maltose, a disaccharide made of two glucose (dextrose) molecules, has a DE of 52, correcting...
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    Lactose (category Disaccharides)
    Lactose, or milk sugar, is a disaccharide composed of galactose and glucose and has the molecular formula C12H22O11. Lactose makes up around 2–8% of milk...
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  • hydrolysis. Two, three, several or many monosaccharides thus linked form disaccharides, trisaccharides, oligosaccharides, or polysaccharides, respectively...
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    Sucralose (category Disaccharides)
    portion—to give a 1,6-dichloro-1,6-dideoxyfructose–4-chloro-4-deoxygalactose disaccharide. Sucralose is about 600 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar), 3 times...
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    sugar fructose. It is one of the two components believed to comprise the disaccharide sucralose, a commercial sugar substitute. In mammals, 1,6-dichloro-1...
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    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...
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    starches into various types of sugar, including monosaccharide glucose, disaccharide maltose, trisaccharide maltotriose, and higher sugars called maltodextrines...
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    sulfated repeating disaccharide unit. The main disaccharide units that occur in heparin are shown below. The most common disaccharide unit* (see below)...
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    Conversion of the disaccharide sugar lactose (substrate) to two monosaccharide sugars (products) by lactase (enzyme)...
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    on their sulfate content. Kappa-carrageenan has one sulfate group per disaccharide, iota-carrageenan has two, and lambda-carrageenan has three. A common...
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  • Disaccharides Cellobiose Isomaltose Isomaltulose Lactose Lactulose Maltose Sucrose Trehalose Turanose Trisaccharides Maltotriose Melezitose Raffinose...
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  • Unsaturated chondroitin disaccharide hydrolase (EC 3.2.1.180, UGL, unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolase) is an enzyme with systematic name...
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    Sucrose (category Disaccharides)
    Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits. It is produced naturally in plants and is the main constituent of white...
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    lactose in that both contain roots meaning "milk sugar". Lactose is a disaccharide of galactose plus glucose. Galactose exists in both open-chain and cyclic...
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  • electrolytes (Na+, K+, Cl−). About 30% of starch is hydrolyzed into disaccharide in the oral cavity (mouth). After undergoing mastication and starch digestion...
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