mannitol

English

Etymology

mannose +‎ -itol

Noun

mannitol (countable and uncountable, plural mannitols)

1. (organic chemistry) a polyhydroxy alcohol, an isomer of sorbitol, used as an artificial sweetener

Synonyms

• E421 when used as a sweetener

Translations

alcohol

• Catalan: mannitol (ca) m
• Czech: manitol m
• Finnish: mannitoli (fi)
• Galician: manitol (gl) m
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• Italian: mannitolo (it) m
• Spanish: manitol m
• Welsh: manitol m

See also

• mannitol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia