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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Fructose malabsorption (988 words) |
 | Fructose malabsorption or Dietary Fructose Intolerance is a dietary disability of the small intestine in which the fructose carrier in enterocytes is deficient. |
| Fructose Malabsorption is not to be confused with Hereditary Fructose Intolerance (HFI), a hereditary condition in which the liver enzymes that break up fructose are deficient. |
| In the large intestine the unabsorbed fructose osmotically reduces the absorption of water and is metabolized by normal colonic bacteria to short chain fatty acids and the gases hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. |
| fructose - Encyclopedia.com (1134 words) |
| fructose, levulose, or fruit sugar, simple sugar found in honey and in the fruit and other parts of plants. |
| Glucose and fructose are formed in equal amounts when sucrose is hydrolyzed by the enzyme invertase or by heating with dilute acid; the resulting equimolar mixture of fructose and glucose, called invert sugar, is the major component of honey. |
| Fructose reacts with Fehling's solution and can be differentiated from glucose by its reaction with lime water to form a water-insoluble precipitate, calcium fructosate. |
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