Melezitose

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Melezitose, also spelled melicitose, is a nonreducing trisaccharide sugar that can be extracted from the juices of various trees, including the larch and the Douglas-fir, or from honey made from such exudations. It can be partially hydrolyzed to glucose and turanose the latter of which is an isomer of sucrose.

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