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Fructose or fruit sugar is a simple monosaccharide found in many plants where it is often bonded to glucose to form the disaccharide sucrose. It is one of the three dietary monosaccharides along with glucose and galactose that are absorbed directly into the bloodstream during digestion. Fructose was discovered by French chemist Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut in 1847. The name fructose was coined in 1857 by the English chemist William Miller.

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