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A rare sugar is a sugar that occurs in limited quantities in nature.[2] Rare sugars can be made using enzymes, choosing which enzymes to use if you know the substrate can be aided by the Izumoring-strategy.[3]
Specific examples of rare sugars are:
References
[edit]- ^ "Rare Sugar Sweet". Matsutani. Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ a b c Nagata Y, Mizuta N, Kanasaki A, Tanaka K. (March 2018). "Rare sugars, d-allulose, d-tagatose and d-sorbose, differently modulate lipid metabolism in rats". J Sci Food Agric. 98 (5): 2020–2026. doi:10.1002/jsfa.8687. PMID 28940418 – via NIH National Library of Medicine.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Zhang, Wenli; Zhang, Tao; Jiang, Bo; Mu, Wanmeng (2017). "Enzymatic approaches to rare sugar production". Biotechnology Advances. 35 (2): 267–274. doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.01.004. PMID 28111316 – via Elsevier ScienceDirect.
- ^ Matso, Tatsuhiro; Suzuki, Hiroo (2002). "D-Psicose Is a Rare Sugar That Provides No Energy to Growing Rats". Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology. 48 (1): 77–80. doi:10.3177/jnsv.48.77. PMID 12026195 – via J-Stage.
- ^ The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals (11th ed.), Merck, 1989, ISBN 091191028X