In scientific literature, the term "carbohydrate" has many synonyms, like "sugar" (in the broad sense), "saccharide", "ose", "glucide", … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Monosaccharides are the simplest carbohydrates in that they cannot be hydrolyzed to smaller carbohydrates. They are aldehydes or ketones with two or more hydroxyl groups. The general chemical formula of an unmodified monosaccharide is (C•H2O)n, … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Carbohydrate consumed in food yields 3.87 kilocalories of energy per gram for simple sugars, and 3.57 to 4.12 kilocalories per … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

The history of the discovery regarding carbohydrates dates back around 10,000 years ago in Papua New Guinea during the cultivation of Sugarcane during the Neolithic agricultural … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Formerly the name "carbohydrate" was used in chemistry for any compound with the formula Cm (H2O)n. Following this definition, some … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Two joined monosaccharides are called a disaccharide, the simplest kind of polysaccharide. Examples include sucrose and lactose. They are composed of two monosaccharide units bound together by a covalent bond known as a glycosidic linkage ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ

Most dietary carbohydrates contain glucose, either as their only building block (as in the polysaccharides starch and glycogen), or … ਹੋਰ ਦੇਖੋ