SHEET /m/glucose · PubChem CID 5793 · REV 2026.07
Glucose
from sourceC6H12O6 · 180.16 g/mol
D-glucopyranose · D-Glc · D-Glcp · Glc-OH
What is Glucose?
Blood sugar. The molecule nearly every cell in your body burns for energy, and the unit that starch, cellulose, and table sugar are built from. Found in fruit, honey, and table sugar. from source
Fig. 1 · 2D structure RDKit
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The dose makes the poison inferred
A reported rat oral LD50 for Glucose is 25,800 mg/kg, the dose lethal to half the animals tested. Scaled by body mass alone:
“The dose makes the poison” is a cross-species estimate shown as neutral science, not a threshold anyone should act on. Real toxicity depends on the person, not body mass alone.
Signature properties
Toxicity & hazards
Toxicity · LD50
25,800 mg/kg · very low toxicity · LD50 rat oral from source
The dose lens above scales this to a body weight.
1 more reported value
- 9,000 mg/kgLD50 · iv · mouse
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Where Glucose leads
Compare with
Glucose is the sugar the body actually runs on, the molecule a blood-sugar reading measures. On the tongue it is only about three quarters as sweet as table sugar.