invert sugar

invert sugar   n.  A mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose. It is found naturally in fruits and honey and produced artificially for use in the food industry.

Main Entry: invert sugar
Function: noun
: a mixture of D-glucose and D-fructose that is sweeter than sucrose, that occursnaturally in fruits and honey, that is usually made commercially from a solution of cane sugar by hydrolysis (as with acid), and that is used chiefly as a difficultly crystallizable syrup in foods andin medicine

invert sugar n.
A mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose, found naturally in fruits and honey, and produced artificially for use in the food industry.