Look up: carbohydrates

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   carbohydrates
   class of biochemical compounds which includes sugars, starch, chitin, and steroids.
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   Carbohydrates
   Starches, sugar, cellulose, fibres and woody materials. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in the ratio of 2 molecules of hydrogen to 1 of oxygen. They are a major source of energy for the animal.
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   carbohydrates
   (Humans as organisms) food group consisting of sugars, starch and cellulose. They are vital for energy in humans and will be stored as fats if eaten in excess. In plants, carbohydrates are important for photosynthesis.
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   Carbohydrates
   are an important source of energy as food. They are organic compounds containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen., usually with the hydrogen and oxygen in about the same ratio as in water. They include sugars such as sucrose; and polysaccharides such as cellulose, glycogen, starch, and various forms of glucose including dextrose. See under Diet and Glycaemic Index.
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   Carbohydrates
   Organic compound containing only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in a characteristic ratio, e.g. starch, sucrose (table sugar), and glucose. They are a basic source of energy, circulating as glucose in the blood stream, and being stored as glycogen in virtually all body tissues, but mainly in the liver and muscles. Bread, potatoes, fruits, honey and refined sugars are all excellent sources of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates yield about four Calories per gram when oxidised.
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   carbohydrates
   The major energy source within plants and animals: sugars, starches and glucose polymers.
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   Carbohydrates
   One of the nutrients that supply calories to the body to give it energy. Bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and cereals are examples of carbohydrates
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   Carbohydrates
   Carbohydrates: Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of nutrients used as energy sources (calories) by the body. Carbohydrates can also be defined chemically as neutral compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Carbohydrates come in simple forms such as sugars and in complex forms such as starches and fi ...
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   carbohydrates
   Very abundant compounds with the general formula Cn(H2O)n. The smallest are monosaccharides like glucose; polysaccharides (eg. starch, cellulose, glycogen) can be large and indeterminate in length.
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    carbohydrates
    A class of aldehyde or ketone derivatives of polyhydric alcohols, particularly of the pentahydric and hexahydric alcohols. They are so named because the hydrogen and oxygen are usually in the proportion to form water, cn(h2o)n. The most important include the small sugars as well as the large starches, glycogens, celluloses, and gums. Carbohydrates ...
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    carbohydrates
    Class name for the aldehydic or ketonic derivatives of polyhydric alcohols, the name being derived from the fact that the most common examples of such compounds have formulas that may be written as Cn(H2O)n (e.g., glucose, C6(H2O)6; sucrose, C12(H2O)11), although they are not true hydrates and the name is, in that sense, a misnomer. The group inclu...
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    Carbohydrates
    A group of organic compounds, including sugars, starches and fiber, that is a major source of energy for animals.
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