Monosaccharides
Monosaccharides - are single sugars - fructose, glucose or galactose.
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Monosaccharides - Literally "single sugars." These serve as the building blocks for more "complex" carbs like disaccharides and polysaccharides.
Monosaccharide—Any of several carbohydrates, such as glucose, fructose, galactose, that cannot be broken down to simpler sugars.
Nutrient—A source of nourishment, especially a nourishing ingredient in a food.
Monosaccharides: Monosaccharides are simple carbohydrates that consist of a single sugar molecule. Examples include glucose, fructose, and galactose.
Monounsaturated Fat: See Unsaturated Fat.
Niacin: See Vitamin B3.
Monosaccharides (glucose, galactose, fructose) are the sugars found in milk and fruits.
Disaccharides (sucrose, lactose) might be found in table sugars and milk sugars. They are a combination of a two simple sugars.
Monosaccharides first diffuse across to the enterocyte surface, followed by movement across the brush border membrane by one of two mechanisms: active transport or facilitated diffusion.
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Fructose is a natural monosaccharide that occurs in fruits and honey. In whole fruit, it is an excellent energy source. Pure fructose may be derived from fruit, but this is not financially expedient.
There are two types of sugars - monosaccharides, which include glucose, fructose and galactose, are made of one sugar molecule, and disaccharides are made of two sugar molecules linked together.
Simple sugars are also called monosaccharides. Disaccharides have two rings, and include maltose and table sugar, or sucrose.
Fructose is a monosaccharide found naturally in fruits and vegetables and used for energy. Basically, you consume fructose in three ways: natural whole foods, sucrose (white sugar) or synthetically manufactured high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
I wonder if you don't want to go into a bit more detail as to why, for example, rapidly absorbed monosaccharides and polyhydroxyl alcohols are a bad idea for folks with elevated triglycerides (acetylation and fat synthesis wouldn't be a bad topic to ...
 See also: Carbohydrates, Carbohydrate, Glucose, Sugar, Nutrition
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