CARBOHYDRATES
As the name represent carbon or hydrates mean hydrogen and ooxygen.
carbohyrates has
ratio of hydrogen twice that of carbon.
simplest carbohydrate that is we used in our dite is
bread potatoes and rice.
Types of carbohydrates
1)MONOSACCHARIDES
2)DISACCHARIDES
3)OLIGOSACCAHRIDES
4)PLYSACCHARIDES
MONOSACCAHRIDES
These simple sugars can combine with each other to form more complex carbohydratesnd oxygen.
Monosaccharide classifications based on the number of carbons
Number of
Carbons | Category Name | Examples |
4 | Tetrose | Erythrose, Threose |
5 | Pentose | Arabinose, Ribose, Ribulose, Xylose, Xylulose, Lyxose |
6 | Hexose | Allose, Altrose, Fructose, Galactose, Glucose, Gulose, Idose, Mannose, Sorbose, Talose, Tagatose |
7 | Heptose | Sedoheptulose, Mannoheptulose |
A chain-form monosaccharide that has a carbonyl group (C=O) on an end carbon forming an aldehyde group (-CHO) is classified as an aldose. When the carbonyl group is on an inner atom forming a ketone, it is classified as a ketose.
DISACCHARIDES
Disaccharides consist of two simple sugars
Sucrose, also called saccharose, is ordinary table sugar refined from sugar cane or sugar beets. It is the main ingredient in turbinado sugar, evaporated or dried cane juice, brown sugar, and confectioner's sugar. Lactose has a molecular structure consisting of galactose and glucose
Sucrose
POLYSACCAHRIDES
Many polysaccharides, unlike sugars, are insoluble in water. Dietary fiber includes polysaccharides and oligosaccharides that are resistant to digestion and absorption in the human small intestine but which are completely or partially fermented by microorganisms in the large intestine. The polysaccharides described below play important roles in nutrition, biology, or food preparation.
BASIC TYPES OF POLYSACCHARIDES ARE:
STARCH
CELLULOSE