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Dan Abel

In article >,
(Steve Pope) wrote:

> Very difficult to say. Sugars within a plant can transform between
> glucose and fructose and back, as the plant develops and ripen.
> They can also shift between monosaccharides, disaccharides, and
> polysaccharides. This has been studied in cases where it is economically
> important, such as wine grapes, but I do not know about pineapple.

Many fruits have a significant amount of sucrose in them.

(raw pineapple, sugar in %)

Type Sucrose Glucose Fructose
==== ======= ======= ========

all varieties 6 2 2
extra sweet variety 6 2 2
tradition varieties 5 2 2

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA