Comment by pvorb
5 years ago
Btw, the German word for glucose is Traubenzucker, which literally translates to "grape sugar". I'm not sure if it's also common in English.
5 years ago
Btw, the German word for glucose is Traubenzucker, which literally translates to "grape sugar". I'm not sure if it's also common in English.
My father's hometown, in the United States, had a total of five German language daily newspapers when he was a boy. This was a bit after C.W. Post died, but I expect that either it was German influence or at the time both Americans and Germans (and German-Americans) referred to dextrose as grape sugar and that usage just faded among the English speaking populations.