simple sugar

Questions about simple sugar

What does simple sugar mean?

simple sugar means "a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates".

What is another word for simple sugar?

Close synonyms include monosaccharide, monosaccharose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is simple sugar a common word?

simple sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.