A type of sugar or monosaccharide with six carbon atoms, related to glucose and fructose.
From 'gul-' (possibly from guluronic acid terminology) plus the suffix '-ose' which is the standard ending for sugars in chemistry, similar to glucose, fructose, and sucrose.
Gulose is one of the rarer sugars in the chemical family—while glucose and fructose are everywhere in nature, gulose is so uncommon that most people have never heard of it, yet it plays a role in how our bodies process different carbohydrates.
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