grape sugar

noun

1. dextrose.

grape sugar

noun

1. another name for dextrose

Word History and Origins

Origin of grape sugar¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

One of the commonest adulterations is the substitution of grape sugar (glucose) for cane sugar.

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You will remember that starch in the growing corn grain was changed to grape sugar by an enzyme called diastase.

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The digestion or change of starch to grape sugar is caused by the presence in the saliva of an enzyme, or digestive ferment.

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Careful tests of the starch paste and of the saliva made separately will usually show no grape sugar in either.

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Non-osmosis of non-digested foods, comparison between osmosable qualities of starch and grape sugar.

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