glucose isomerase
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- An enzyme that catalyses the interconversion of the two sugars, glucose and fructose. As fructose is a lower energy compound compared with glucose, a mixture of glucose and fructose with the enzyme will end up almost entirely as fructose.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization - Cite This Source - This Definition - amylose, beta-galactosidase, disaccharide, glucose invertase, lactose, monosaccharide, oligosaccharide, Polysaccharide