5.2 Summary

Carbohydrates are an ideal source of energy for the body.















Carbohydrates is an organic compound made up of sugar molecules. Sugars contain the following elements: 1 oxygen, 1 carbon, and 2 hydrogen.




Sugar Molecule --->




Simple kinds of sugar containing,Monosaccharides, just has one sugar unit. There are different examples of glucose which are fructose and galactose are examples of monosaccharides. Most of the things you eat daily contains one or more of the simples sugars found in the sweet things you may eat. There are two different forms of glucose. One of the form is a straight-chain and the other one is a ring-shaped.



Disaccharides, meaning "two sugars", are commonly found in nature as sucrose, lactose and maltose. A glucose molecule contains sucrose and a fructose molecule. In the planet the mose important carbohydrate. The process of table sugar is the stems of surgar cant or any of the roos of a sugar beet. Once you swollow a sucrose, it can be divided into glucose and fructose.

Polysaccharides are the complex carbohydrates. They are made up of chains of monosaccharides (the sugars) which are linked together by glycosidic bonds. A starch is a kind of plysaccharide which is found in plant cells. They contain mostly of glucose monmers. Glycogen is a type of stach which is a chain of many glucose monmers. Most of the glycogen is stored in a humans granules in the liver and muscle cells. Cellulose is served as a kind of building material and also is found if some polysaccharides plants.

5.2 Key Terms
-Carbohydrate
-Monosaccharide
-Disaccacharide
-Polysaccharide
-Starch
-Glycogen
-Cellulose