Glucose plays an important role in human metabolism:

Glucose is an indispensable nutrient for metabolism in living organisms. The heat released from its oxidation reaction is an important source of energy required for human life activities. Glucose enhances memory, stimulates calcium absorption and increases intercellular communication.

The pharmacological effects of glucose can be summarized as nutritive, detoxifying, cardiotonic and diuretic; it is a physiological sugar and the main source of energy required by the body. It is oxidized into carbon dioxide and water in the body and provides heat at the same time, stored in the form of glycogen. It has a protective effect and detoxification function on the liver and promotes the excretion of toxic substances.

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Glucose Name Origin

As early as 1747, the German chemist Margraf isolated a mixture containing this sweet substance from raisins. Nearly 70 years later, four French chemists isolated a monomer of the sweet substance, which was officially named glucose.

Then later, scientists discovered that glucose is actually contained in many sweet fruits, such as watermelon, bananas, pears, apples, cinnamon, red dates, etc., and even in the blood, but according to the convention of source nomenclature, it has been called glucose.

Is glucose the only saccharide in grapes? Neither is it. Glucose is just one of the many saccharides in grapes. Grapes also contain fructose, galactose, mannose, maltose, fructose, cotton seed sugar, honey disaccharide, starch, pectin, active polysaccharides and so on.

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