How to Use dextrose in a Sentence

dextrose

noun
  • Others use dextrose, plum fruit, coconut milk and even duck egg soup.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Be aware that sugar can hide under names like dextrose, molasses and corn syrup, too.
    — Kylie Hermansen, baltimoresun.com, 25 May 2017
  • Corn syrup, corn solids, maltodextrin, dextrose, xylose, high-fructose corn syrup.
    — Sarah Koch, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • So there's no rib bones involved; the McRib is made from pork, water, salt, dextrose and rosemary extract.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But the frozen dinners still contains xanthan gum, dextrose, isolated soy protein product and guar gum.
    — Heather Haddon, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • High fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, glucose, agave, honey, cane juice, and corn syrup solids are all just types of sugar in disguise.
    — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 14 July 2017
  • The researchers had to administer dextrose to increase the pigs’ blood sugar levels.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2022
  • According to its website, the boneless patty is made of pork, water, salt, dextrose, and rosemary extract.
    — Dallas Morning News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • To try to counteract the insulin, medical staff gave the baby an injection of dextrose, or sugar.
    — Ellen Gabler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The McRib is a patty shaped to resemble a rack of ribs, made from pork, water, salt, dextrose, and rosemary extract.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Other methods include using a different sized bag when possible or swapping in dextrose for saline.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Glucose is called dextrose; fructose is also called levulose.
    — Caitlin Granfield, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Other methods include using a different sized bag, when possible, or swapping in dextrose for saline.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Although stevia does not raise blood sugar, the ingredient dextrose, for example, does.
    — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • So there's no rib bones involved; the McRib is made from pork, water, salt, dextrose and – this one wasn't on my bingo card – rosemary extract.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
  • It is blended with calorie-free sweeteners such as maltodextrin and dextrose to reduce its excessive sweetness.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Unfortunately, Certo has dextrose (corn) as the first ingredient, as do most of the other fruit pectin brands.
    — Teresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Monk fruit products may also contain dextrose or maltodextrin, both of which have carbohydrates, Johnson said.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The natural disaster has already knocked back the supply of small-volume saline and dextrose bags, which are widely used intravenous solutions.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The products—dextrose and sodium chloride, also known as saline—are intravenous fluids given to hospital patients.
    — Jonathan D. Rockoff, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Note that granola bars may use other names for sugar, including corn syrup, brown rice syrup, honey, invert sugar, molasses, barley malt extract, fructose, and dextrose.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 3 Sep. 2019
  • That usually consists of starch, food coloring, and stabilizers and preservatives (look for words like maltodextrin, dextrose, and gum arabic).
    — Karen Yuan, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The list included various vitamins and supplements, dextrose, coconut water or meat, duck egg soup, jujube fruit, milk, honey, energy drinks and even human breastmilk.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Vitargo Chocolate is a delicious combination of cocoa, maltitol, and dextrose.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
  • At Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, the emergency room staff determined her blood sugar was low and gave her a dose of dextrose, which revived her.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Her project purchases the fentanyl from a pharmaceutical manufacturer, and a local pharmacy compounds it, with dextrose and caffeine as buffers.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • And several concentrations of dextrose, a sugar solution used to help patients who can’t eat, have low blood sugar or need extra energy, have been in short supply since early 2022.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Cooper, which orders a million bags of IV fluids a year, has reduced use of IV basics like saline and dextrose by 30 percent by changing some longtime practices.
    — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Sterile water for wound irrigation, sodium chloride for IV fluids, and dextrose for blood sugar stabilization are also facing supply shortages.
    — Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Its kits also include auto-injectors for epinephrine, atropine, dextrose, epinephrine and lidocaine.
    — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2022

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