NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
HUMAN ANATOMY PHYSIOLOGY
Question
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monosaccharides, fruit sugar
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monosaccharides, milk sugar
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disaccharides, table sugar
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fructose is a type of sugar known as a monosaccharide. Like other sugars, fructose provides four calories per gram. Fructose is also known as “fruit sugar” because it primarily occurs naturally in many fruits. It also occurs naturally in other plant foods such as honey, sugar beets, sugar cane and vegetables.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fruit contains two types of sugar: fructose and glucose. The proportions of each vary, but most fruits are about half glucose and half fructose.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is fructose? Fructose or fruit sugar, is a simple sugar naturally occurring in fruit, honey, sucrose and high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is very sweet, roughly one-and-a-half times sweeter than sucrose (white sugar).