Pentose vs. Sucrose — What's the Difference?

In chemistry, a pentose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar) with five carbon atoms. The chemical formula of all pentoses is C5H10O5, and their molecular weight is 150.13 g/mol.Pentoses are very important in biochemistry.

Sucrose is made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose joined together. It is a disaccharide, a molecule composed of two monosaccharides: glucose and fructose.

Any of a class of monosaccharides having five carbon atoms per molecule and including ribose and several other sugars.

A crystalline disaccharide of fructose and glucose, C12H22O11, extracted chiefly from sugarcane and sugar beets and commonly known as table sugar. Also called saccharose.

(carbohydrate) A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.

(carbohydrate) A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.

Any of a group of sugars of the formula C5H10O5, such as as arabinose or ribose; - so called from the five carbon atoms in the molecule. They are not fermented by yeast.

A common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. It is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. Called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. At one time the term was used by extension, for any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type; however this usage is now archaic.

Any monosaccharide sugar containing five atoms of carbon per molecule

A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent