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Do fruits such as apples, pears, oranges, bananas, etc. have any natural sugars in them besides fructose?
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Yes, glucose and sucrose among others. I'll edit this when I find a link.
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Fascinating! What was even more interesting was to look at the fruits with the highest content of sucrose--all my favorite fruits. The sugar addict in me rears its ugly head!
I was under the impression that fruit only contained fructose.
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Fructose is the major fruit sugar (stored as fructan), but by no means the only one. Heck, cellulose is beta-1-4-Glucose.
Anyway, discussing percentages of monosaccharides is kinda silly, since they're never almost found that way in the organism (that high energy aldol/keton group is going to react with something).
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