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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | Copyright

raffinose Trisaccharide of fructose, glucose, and galactose, found in cotton seed, sugar‐beet molasses, and Australian manna; also known as melitose or melitriose. Has 23% of the sweetness of sucrose; not digested.

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