Carbohydrate Trivia
Carbohydrates can be divided into three types: monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. 1. Sugar Monosaccharides are the simplest sugar in structure, under usual terms, they can no longer be broken into smalller sugar monomers. Mainly of them are glucose, D-galactose, D-fructose. Disaccharides are the molecules which are produced by dehydration of the hydroxyl groups on two identical different monosaccharide molecules. The most common disaccharides in nature are sucroses and lactose,what’s more ,there are also maltose, trehalose, isomaltose, cellobiose, chitobiose, etc. Sugar alcohol is an important derivative of monosaccharides, common ones are sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, maltitol and so on. Oligosaccharides are also called oligosaccharides. Several currently konwn important oligosaccharides include raffinose, stachyose, isomalto-oligosaccharides, fructooligosaccharides, mannose oligosaccharides, soybean oligosaccharides and so on. Its sweetness