A colourless, sweet-tasting, crystalline compound, CHO·CHOH·CH2OH, which is the simplest optically active sugar.
Any sugar whose molecule (in its open-chain form) contains an aldehyde group. Cf. ketose n. at ketone, n. derivatives.
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