: a sweet crystalline dextrorotatory disaccharide sugar C12H22O11 that occurs naturally in most plants and is obtained commercially especially from sugarcane or sugar beets
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Beauchamp assessed the sucrose preferences of children ages 11 to 15 across a decade.
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Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Tahara and his team fed water containing 0.1% caffeine to mice along with either 1% sucrose (sugar), or 0.1% saccharine.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
Xylitol has the same sweetness as sucrose (table sugar).
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 18 Dec. 2024
Initial demonstrations, for example, showed the machine could easily flag the external addition of sucrose and D-tartaric acid.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
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Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Tahara and his team fed water containing 0.1% caffeine to mice along with either 1% sucrose (sugar), or 0.1% saccharine.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 24 Dec. 2024
Xylitol has the same sweetness as sucrose (table sugar).
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 18 Dec. 2024
Initial demonstrations, for example, showed the machine could easily flag the external addition of sucrose and D-tartaric acid.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Sucrose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sucrose. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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sucrose
noun
su·crose
ˈsü-ˌkrōs 
: a sweet sugar obtained especially from sugarcane or sugar beets
Medical Definition
sucrose
noun
su·crose
ˈsü-ˌkrōs, -ˌkrōz
: a sweet crystalline dextrorotatory nonreducing disaccharide sugar C12H22O11 that occurs naturally in most plants and is obtained commercially especially from sugarcane or sugar beets
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