Sugar's Building Blocks

Simple sugars are called monosaccharides:

•  Galactose.   Found in dairy products, sugar beets, gums, mucins, synthesized in body

•   Fructose.    E.g.in fruit, table sugar, HFCS,honey, agave nectar

•  Glucose ( Dextrose).   E.g. in table sugar, HFCS, honey, agave nectar. Glucose and dextrose are the same molecule, but glucose is often obtainedfrom hydrolizing wheat, whereas dextrose is usually obtained from hydrolizing corn

Two simple sugars join to make disaccharides

•   Fructose + Glucose ➜ SUCROSE (sugar cane, table sugar)

•   Galactose + Glucose ➜ LACTOSE (mostly in cow's milk)

•   Glucose + Glucose ➜ MALTOSE (malt sugar, formed during digestion of starches, found in germinating seeds)