FOOD CHEMISTRY
CARBOHYDRATES PROTEINS AND LIPIDS
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amino acids
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lipids
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nucleotide
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sacaride
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Detailed explanation-1: -Terminology. In scientific literature, the term “carbohydrate” has many synonyms, like “sugar” (in the broad sense), “saccharide", “ose", “glucide", “hydrate of carbon” or “polyhydroxy compounds with aldehyde or ketone".
Detailed explanation-2: -In biochemistry, carbohydrates are often called saccharides, from the Greek sakcharon, meaning sugar, although not all the saccharides are sweet. The simplest carbohydrates are called monosaccharides, or simple sugars.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term carbohydrate was originally used to describe compounds that were literally “hydrates of carbon” because they had the empirical formula CH2O. In recent years, carbohydrates have been classified on the basis of their structures, not their formulas. They are now defined as polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones.