CARBOHYDRATES are the body's most preferred source of energy. They make up, by far, the largest volume (60%) of our daily food. They are taken in the form of all foods made up of grain flour, cereals, pasta, potatoes and other vegetables, and also in the form of sugars contained in fruits, syrups, honey and candy, as well as in the pure crystalline form of our familiar table "sugar".
Carbohydrate is the element in our food which:
Most carbohydrates come from foods of plant origin. The major simple carbohydrates or sugars are glucose, maltose, fructose, and sucrose which come from plants. Lactose is found in milk.
SUGARS - Glucose is the major kind of simple sugar. Glucose is the basic source of energy for all living things. Glucose supplies the body with quick energy. It occurs naturally in some fruits and vegetables and is also produced in the body by breaking down other foods into glucose.
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Sucrose: commonly known as table sugar, beet sugar, or cane sugar. Sucrose occurs in many fruits and some vegetables.
Fructose: known as fruit sugar. Most plants contain fructose, especially fruits and saps.
Glucose: sometimes known as blood sugar, sometimes as grape sugar. Nearly all plant foods contain glucose.
Maltose: known as malt sugar. Found in grains.
They are closely related; sugars are carbohydrates, but not all carbohydrates are sugars.
Sugar is one of the class of foods called carbohydrates. There are simple and complex carbohydrates, sugar is a simple one.
No, enzymes break carbohydrates down into sugar.
Sugar is an example of carbohydrates.
Sugar
Sugars are carbohydrates. So 10 grams of sugar is 10 grams of carbohydrates.
Sugar is a carbohydrate.
no - sugar = carbohydrates
Sugar IS a carbohydrate.
Sugar molecules are linked in carbohydrates.
A slight misunderstanding; carbohydrates are sugars. Sucrose is table sugar.
complex carbohydrates are made of hundreds of sugar molecules. Carbohydrates are compounds made of sugar.