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What is a carbohydrate?
A carbohydrate is a basic energy source of nutrition. Carbohydratescan be simple like sugars or complex like fibers and starches.Fruits and vegetables are good sources of carb…ohydrates. (MORE)
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What do carbohydrates have in them?
Carbohydrates consist ONLY of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. (The name sort of gives it away...)
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What carbohydrates are for?
A carbohydrate is a nutrient which is non-essential to the human body. Carbohydrates provides the human body with easy accessed energy in the form of glucose.
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How do we get carbohydrates?
We get carbohydrates through eating foods such as fruits and vegetables and products made with flour or grains ie breads, crackers, pizza, pasta, cookies, cakes, cereal and ri…ce to name a few. For more in-depth information, see the page links, further down this page, listed under Related Questions. (MORE)
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What do carbohydrates do?
Carbs turn to fat, and you need some but if you have too much you'll "pack on the pounds". My dad is on the Atkins low carb diet, so he has to watch how many carbs he eats bec…ause they turn to fat. If you burn them off like calories it's not a problem to eat them. It's when you don't burn them off they begin to add up and people gain weight. Carbohydrates are one of three macronutrients essential for health: 1) protein, 2) carbohydrate and 3) fats. Table sugar or sucrose is a carbohydrate. Other examples are glucose, fructose, galactose, lactose etc--these are monosaccharides - meaning they are single molecules of sugar. When many molecules of same type of monosaccharides combine together, a polysaccharide is formed. Starch (in rice, sago, wheat, other grains) is a polysaccharide. When we eat carbohydrates (mainly starch in grains, bread etc.), it is broken down into single molecules of glucose or other monosaccharide. Ultimately as a fuel it reaches into blood as glucose. Carbohydrates form a significant part of vegetarian food. How quickly a food breaks down carbohydrate in it into glucose is called its glycemic index (GI). Foods with high GI tend to deposit fat in your body. Examples of high GI food are white bread, table sugar, white polished rice, etc. Low GI foods are: Raw green peas, unpolished rice, raw corn, cucumbers, tomatoes etc. Carbohydrates, after breaking down to glucose, are utilized by the body for energy production. Each gram of carbohydrates gives out 4 Calories of energy. (MORE)
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Carbohydrates what do they do?
A carbohydrate is a nutrient which is non-essential to the human body. It provides the body with easy accessed energy in the form of glucose.
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Where you get carbohydrates from?
Some sources of carbohydrates include: bread, cereal, pasta, beans, lentils, fruits, vegetables, milk, yogurt, and sweets (such as candy, cake, etc.).
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Which is a carbohydrate-?
Carbohydrates are groups of starches, sugars, cellulose and gum.The human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose that it usesfor energy.
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What are carbohydrates-?
Carbohydrates are a source of nutrition and the main source ofenergy for the body. Starches and sugars are carbohydrates.
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What carbohydrates does?
Carbohydrates are found in food, that is sugar, starch and fibre. They provide energy for the body and are an important part of a healthy diet. The energy is used to support …bodily functions and physical activity (MORE)