You completely lost me in the man-woman analogy.
As far as I understand it, fructose is a component of sucrose, which is all he’s getting at.
man/woman analogy. I use it to cover chemisty topics with non chemists. See, fructose is not a component of sucrose, you will never boil/steam/filter/sift it out. Just like the word "man" is in "woman" does mean that you can extract the man...
um, unless in San Fran or Thailand... but I digress.