Process for separating ketoses from alkaline- or pyridine-catalyzed isomerization products
 A process for the liquid phase adsorptive separation of psicose from an aqueous feed mixture of monosaccharides containing psicose along with other aldoses and ketoses. The feed is contacted with a calcium-Y type zeolite in two stages. In the first, psicose and fructose are selectively adsorbed to the substantial exclusion of other aldoses and ketoses. In the second, psicose is adsorbed to the substantial exclusion of fructose, which is recovered in high purity in the raffinate. The process can be carried out on a commercial scale by means of a simulated moving bed flow scheme. 
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