FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
GALACTOSE
Excerpts from Bender, Arnold E. 1990. Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology. Butterworths, Boston.
A six-carbon sugar differing from glucose only in the position of the hydroxyl group on C4. It occurs mainly linked with glucose to form lactose (milk sugar), and is also present in the galactolipids of nerve tissue. Has 32% of the sweetness of sucrose.
a simple hexose monosaccharide found in lactose or "milk sugar".
http://ific.org/glossary/index.cfm Accessed March 2007. International Food Information Council.
A monosaccharide occurring in both levo (L) and dextro (D) forms as a constituent of plant and animal oligosaccharides (lactose and raffinose) and polysaccharides (agar and pectin). Galactose is the sugar derived from digesting lactose ('milk sugar”).
