How to Use sucrose in a Sentence

sucrose

noun

• Tons of the sugar sucrose is found under the sea where seagrasses grow.
  — Coren Walters-Stewart, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
• The number of new food products containing sucrose has fallen by 16 percent in the last five years.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• Now compare the calorie count to sugar, also known as sucrose, which has four calories per gram—twice as much.
  — Jamie Pitlick, Quartzy, 3 July 2019
• Iron Lung’ train car, guzzling and chomping until sucrose dribbled out of our ears.
  — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2017
• Bees could access the sucrose without interacting with the balls at all.
  — Grace Van Deelen, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2022
• This would let the bees collect a tasty reward of 50 percent sucrose solution.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• The sucrose contained in the nectar provides the energy boost hummingbirds need to remain healthy and strong.
  — Megan Oster, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• Instead, Ficks ferments a mixture of sucrose and orange juice.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• High fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, glucose, agave, honey, cane juice, and corn syrup solids are all just types of sugar in disguise.
  — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 14 July 2017
• In the warmth of the sun, bacteria digest the sucrose, producing acids that both preserve the food and prevent the growth of other, less friendly bacteria.
  — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
• The result is the approximate number of fun-size pieces of candy an individual would have to eat to reach the 50% lethal dose of sucrose.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• Similarly, few of us indulge in sucrose by the spoonful.
  — Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2023
• Left alone, the sucrose accumulates into coarse crystals that are thinly coated with the remainder of the syrup.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
• Sorbitol is a type of sugar, but unlike glucose or sucrose, sorbitol is absorbed into the blood slowly and doesn’t cause a spike in blood sugar.
  — Rachel Boller, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2021
• The taste derived from L-aspartyl-L-phenylalnine methyl ester, a dipeptide of amino acids that is 200 times sweeter than sucrose or table sugar.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2022
• Perhaps the worst offender is sugar — all forms and especially fructose, which makes up half of sucrose and 55 percent of high-fructose corn syrup.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2018
• Carrots, like many root vegetables, contain large reserves of starch, and over time, an enzyme called amylase cuts the starch to release sucrose, or table sugar.
  — Nik Sharma, Washington Post, 8 May 2020
• Bee digestion breaks down the sucrose within nectar into glucose and fructose, which are an excellent food source for microbes like yeast that could foul up the honey stores.
  — Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2021
• In the 18th century, the sugar beet’s predecessors were fed to cattle before somebody realized the beets contained sucrose, the same stuff that makes sugar cane sweet.
  — Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Fructose and glucose are combined in sucrose, table sugar.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 May 2017
• But in the thick sugar solution, the sucrose from the table sugar mixes with glucose from the corn syrup, creating a jumble of molecules with two different shapes.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• The only difference in the children's Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is the addition of one chemical called tri-sucrose.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
• The distinct and lovely aromatic notes of maple come from wood byproducts like vanillin, other products of sucrose caramelization, and products of Maillard reactions between the plant sugars and the amino acids.
  — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
• Instead of one-dimensional white sugar, brown sugar veils each lily-white granule of pure sucrose with murky, seasoned molasses.
  — Ali Bouzari, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• But, while some, like Stevia, have proven adept at mimicking sucrose, artificial compounds have so far fallen short.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2019
• Hummingbirds, which have the fastest metabolism of any animal and no time to spare to fuel their wingbeats, similarly feed on a mixture of pure glucose and sucrose.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2022
• Its sweetness is derived from compounds called mogrosides, which the body processes differently from sugars like sucrose and fructose.
  — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 16 May 2018
• Early research on rats suggested that sucrose keeps animals hooked.
  — Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2023
• Crosslinks in the form of covalent bonds between polymer molecules keep the mixture of glucose and sucrose in place and result in a candy that is solid but potentially squishy—more crosslinks result in a harder final product.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 June 2023
• Sugars like fructose, sucrose, and dietary glucose are found naturally in many fruits and vegetables, while maltose is found in many grains and lactose is found in dairy products, per Harvard Medical School.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024