How to Use sucrose in a Sentence

sucrose

noun
  • Tons of the sugar sucrose is found under the sea where seagrasses grow.
    — Coren Walters-Stewart, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • They are thought to slow the breakdown of sucrose, in turn reducing rapid spikes in blood sugar.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
  • They are thought to slow the breakdown of sucrose, in turn reducing rapid spikes in blood sugar.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Now compare the calorie count to sugar, also known as sucrose, which has four calories per gram—twice as much.
    — Jamie Pitlick, Quartzy, 3 July 2019
  • Iron Lung’ train car, guzzling and chomping until sucrose dribbled out of our ears.
    — Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Once the flower opens fully, and the sucrose has been finished, the ants disappear.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 2 June 2026
  • Bees could access the sucrose without interacting with the balls at all.
    — Grace Van Deelen, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Instead, Ficks ferments a mixture of sucrose and orange juice.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • This would let the bees collect a tasty reward of 50 percent sucrose solution.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The number of new food products containing sucrose has fallen by 16 percent in the last five years.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Beauchamp assessed the sucrose preferences of children ages 11 to 15 across a decade.
    — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The sucrose contained in the nectar provides the energy boost hummingbirds need to remain healthy and strong.
    — Megan Oster, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Early research on rats suggested that sucrose keeps animals hooked.
    — Marta Zaraska, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Researchers found that drinking the tea after consuming sucrose helped lower blood sugar.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers found that drinking the tea after consuming sucrose helped lower blood sugar.
    — Christina Manian, Health, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Left alone, the sucrose accumulates into coarse crystals that are thinly coated with the remainder of the syrup.
    — Elsbeth Sites, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
  • Sorbitol is a type of sugar, but unlike glucose or sucrose, sorbitol is absorbed into the blood slowly and doesn’t cause a spike in blood sugar.
    — Rachel Boller, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • It's made by fermenting Xanthomonas campestris bacteria with sugars such as glucose and sucrose.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Instead of one-dimensional white sugar, brown sugar veils each lily-white granule of pure sucrose with murky, seasoned molasses.
    — Ali Bouzari, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But, while some, like Stevia, have proven adept at mimicking sucrose, artificial compounds have so far fallen short.
    — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2019
  • While this may seem counterintuitive, many birds can’t process sucrose (table sugar) properly.
    — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
  • Carrots, like many root vegetables, contain large reserves of starch, and over time, an enzyme called amylase cuts the starch to release sucrose, or table sugar.
    — Nik Sharma, Washington Post, 8 May 2020
  • The majority of it is fructose (a sugar most abundant in many fruits), followed by glucose, with lesser amounts of sucrose and other sugars.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In the warmth of the sun, bacteria digest the sucrose, producing acids that both preserve the food and prevent the growth of other, less friendly bacteria.
    — Tejal Rao, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Bee digestion breaks down the sucrose within nectar into glucose and fructose, which are an excellent food source for microbes like yeast that could foul up the honey stores.
    — Darren Incorvaia, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The scientists fed mice solutions that contained 10 percent sucrose.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The result is the approximate number of fun-size pieces of candy an individual would have to eat to reach the 50% lethal dose of sucrose.
    — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Milk products contain lactose sugar, while fruits and vegetables contain sugars like fructose, glucose, and sucrose.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Its sweetness is derived from compounds called mogrosides, which the body processes differently from sugars like sucrose and fructose.
    — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 16 May 2018

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