ETYM Latin fructus fruit.
C6H12O6 a sugar that occurs naturally in honey, the nectar of flowers, and many sweet fruits; it is commercially prepared from glucose.r /> It is a monosaccharide, whereas the more familiar cane or beet sugar is a disaccharide, made up of two monosaccharide units: fructose and glucose. It is sweeter than cane sugar and can be used to sweeten foods for people with diabetes.
A simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits; SYN. fruit sugar, levulose, laevulose.