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Sugar

Sugar

Sugars are carbohydrates. The natural sugar in fruits is glucose and fructose, and the natural sugar in milk is lactose...
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Monosaccharides

Monosaccharides

In addition to glucose, there are two other monosaccharides, galactose and fructose, most often in the human diet.  ...
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Disaccharides

Disaccharides

Our daily diet has three main types of disaccharides: sucrose, lactose, and maltose.  Sucrose is a disaccharide...
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Glucose

Glucose

Glucose is the most abundant simple sugar found in nature. Glucose is found in honey, other sweeteners, fruits, and oth...
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Fructose

Fructose

Fructose: The Fruit Sugar Fructose, the sweetest natural sugar, is found in fruits and honey. Fructose is a monosacc...
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Sucrose

Sucrose

Sucrose: The Table Sugar The sugar, also called icing sugar, table sugar, granulated sugar | sucrose is a disacchari...
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Lactose

Lactose

Lactose, a disaccharide, is the natural sugar in milk. Although milk is not a food you think of as sweet, milk conta...
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Polysaccharides

Polysaccharides

The Polysaccharides: Starch and Fiber Starches and fibers are also called complex carbohydrates because they are mad...
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Starch

Starch

Starchy foods are the body's primary source of energy. Starchy foods are essential to a balanced diet, providing ene...
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Sugar Substitues

Sugar Substitues

Sugar Substitutes to Lessen Empty Calories in the Diet Sugar substitutes are artificial sweeteners or natural sweete...
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Glycemic Index

Glycemic Index

Glycemic Index: A Helpful for Diabetics The glycaemic index (GI) tells us whether a carbohydrate-containing food rai...
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Empty Calories

Empty Calories

Saturated fats and added sugars enhance the flavors and tastes of foods when cooking the foods and make the foods more ...
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Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrates

Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrates

From the Mouth to the Stomach The digestion of carbohydrates starts from eating the foods as the chemical and mechan...
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Dietary Fiber

Dietary Fiber

Humans do not produce the enzymes that break down dietary fiber; however, large intestine (colon) bacteria can break do...
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carbohydrates and energy

Carbohydrates and Energy

Carbohydrates are critical to support life’s most basic function—energy production. Without energy, none of the life pr...
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