Section 1: Food, Nutrition and Health - Chapter 1: Nutrients - 3: Carbohydrates
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- What carbohydrate is:
- Macronutrient
- Made by plants during photosynthesis
- Sugars:
- Monosaccharides: glucose, fructose and galactose
- Disaccharides: sucrose, lactose and maltose
- Complex carbohydrates:
- Polysaccharides: starch, pectin, dextrin and dietry fibre (also called non-starch polysaccharide - NSP)
- What carbohydrate does in the body:
- Main source of energy
- To get rid of waste products (dietry fibre)
- Main sources of carbohydrate:
- Glucose:
- Ripe fruits and vegatables (e.g. apples, onions, beetroot, parsnip, sweet potato). Also available in drinks, tablets and powder form
- Fructose:
- Fruits, vegetables and honey. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) used as a sweetener in many processed foods and carbonated soft drinks
- Galactose:
- Milk from mammals
- Maltose:
- Barley, a syrup (malt extract), added to breakfast cereals, biscuits…
- Glucose:
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