3 LEVULOSE (C₆H₁₂O₆)

This is the companion sugar to glucose and exists in many fruits.

Levulose is often called "fruit-sugar." The composition of levulose is

exactly the same as glucose, but the atoms are combined in different

ways.

Levulose, for all practical purposes, may be considered the equivalent

of glucose in the human body. It is sweeter than glucose and more

closely resembles cane-sugar.

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