Fructose is a kind of sugar that plants make. You meet it in fruit, in honey, and in many sweet drinks.

Fructose is a kind of sugar that plants makeFructose（果糖）是植物製造的一種糖。You meet it in fruit, in honey, and in many sweet drinks你會在水果、蜂蜜，還有很多甜的飲料裡遇到它。

It is one of the simple sugars: in the same family as glucose, but the body handles it a little differently, mostly in the liver. Table sugar (sucrose) is a pair — one part glucose, one part fructose — joined together.

It is one of the simple sugars它是單醣的一種：in the same family as glucose和 glucose（葡萄糖）同一個家族，but the body handles it a little differently, mostly in the liver但身體處理它的方式有點不一樣，主要是在肝臟裡處理。Table sugar (sucrose) is a pair一般的砂糖（sucrose，蔗糖）是一對——one part glucose, one part fructose一部分是 glucose，一部分是 fructose——joined together結合在一起的。

Food makers also use a syrup heavy in fructose because it tastes very sweet.

Food makers also use a syrup heavy in fructose食品製造商也會使用富含 fructose 的糖漿 because it tastes very sweet因為它嚐起來非常甜。

Scientists and food labels use the word; ordinary talk just says sugar, or fruit sugar. Though actually, ‘fruit sugar’ can mislead: a banana has fructose, but it has glucose too, and a biscuit may have more fructose than an apple if the recipe used that syrup.

Scientists and food labels use the word科學家和食品標籤上會用這個字；ordinary talk just says sugar, or fruit sugar日常說話就只說 sugar，或是 fruit sugar（果糖）。Though actually不過其實，"fruit sugar" can mislead「fruit sugar」這個說法可能會讓人誤會：a banana has fructose, but it has glucose too香蕉裡有 fructose，但它裡面也有 glucose，and a biscuit may have more fructose than an apple if the recipe used that syrup而且如果餅乾的食譜用了那種糖漿，餅乾裡的 fructose 甚至可能比蘋果還多。