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7-letter words (1 found)

FRUCTAN,

6-letter words (2 found)

UNCART,UNFACT,

5-letter words (8 found)

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4-letter words (29 found)

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3-letter words (34 found)

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2-letter words (11 found)

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You can make 85 words from fructan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fructan

fructan

Noun

fructan (plural fructans)

  1. (biochemistry) Any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues
    • 2000, Nordic Council of Ministers, Safety evaluation of fructans, TemaNord, page 17,
      Fructans are also produced by algae, fungi and bacteria (Nelson & Smith, 1986) There is a substantial variation in both linkage types and number of carbohydrate monomers making up the fructans. The functionality, if any, of the different fructan structures is as yet not clear.
    • 2010, Peter J. O'Brien, Cynthia Y. Feng, Owen Lee, Q. Dong, Rhea Mehta, Jeff Bruce, W. Robert Bruce, 7: Fructose-Derived Endogenous Toxins, Peter J. O'Brien, William Robert Bruce (editors), Endogenous Toxins: Targets for Disease Treatment and Prevention, Volume 1, Wiley (Wiley-VCH), page 176,
      Fructose can also exist in the diet as fructans and dietary sugar alcohols. Fructans (fructo-oligosaccharides) are polymers of fructose molecules that are not absorbed by the intestine but are metabolized by anaerobic colonic bacteria.

Hyponyms

  • inulin

Related terms

  • oligofructan
  • polyfructan

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