Multiple choice

With reference to diabetes, which among the following means levulose?

  1. Fructose

  2. Common sugar

  3. Galactose

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Fructose is one of the sweetest of all sugars and is combined with glucose to make sucrose, galactose or common table sugar. An older common name for fructose is levulose, after its levorotatory property of rotating plane polarized light to the left (in contrast to glucose which is dextrorotatory).

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