Definition of carbohydrates Carbohydrates
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What does carbohydrates mean?
Wiktionary 
Part of speech
🔤- carbohydrates, noun, plural of carbohydrate.
WordNet
NounPlural: carbohydrates |
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| carbohydrate - an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | ||
| saccharide, sugar | ||
| macromolecule, supermolecule any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | ||
| ribose a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid | ||
| beet sugar sugar from sugar beets used as sweetening agent | ||
| cane sugar sugar from sugarcane used as sweetening agent | ||
| deoxyribose a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | ||
| invert sugar a mixture of equal parts of glucose and fructose resulting from the hydrolysis of sucrose; found naturally in fruits; sweeter than glucose | ||
| maple sugar sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree | ||
| monosaccharide, monosaccharose, simple sugar a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates | ||
| oligosaccharide any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis | ||
| polyose, polysaccharide any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules | ||
| jaggary, jaggery, jagghery unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- carbohydrate (n.)
One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.
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carbohydrate
Any of the group of organic compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, including sugars, starches and celluloses.
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Carbohydrates are chemical compounds that contain only oxygen, hydrogen and carbon. They consist of monosaccharide sugars with the generic formula Cn(H2O)n.
Certain carbohydrates are an important storage and transport form of energy in most organisms, including plants and animals. and cellulose).
Nutrition and foods.
In fact, human beings can live without eating foods with carbohydrates. The human body changes protein into carbohydrates, and so if a human being eats only food with protein, they can still live a healthy life. People of some cultures eat food with very little carbohydrates, but they still remain healthy. Still, carbohydrates are the most common source of energy for the human body. Protein and fats build tissue and cells in the body. Carbohydrates are better for energy, so eating them allows more protein and fat to be used for tissue and cell building.
Researches in the United States and Canada have shown that people get about 40% to 60% of energy from carbohydrates. However, studies suggest that people should eat carbohydrates to get at least 55% to 75% of energy from carbohydrates.
Some foods have high carbohydrates in them. These foods include breads, pastas, potatoes, bran and cereals.
Classification.
Medical science tells about two types of carbohydrates: simple carbohydrates, and complex carbohydrates. Monosaccharides and disaccharides are simple carbohydrates, with single sugar molecules such as fructose, or two bonded sugar molecules such as sucrose with
Part of speech
🔤- carbohydrate, noun, singular of carbohydrates.
