HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Monosaccharides consist of a single sugar. Examples include glucose and fructose. Disaccharides contain two sugar units. Oligosaccharides contain 3 to 10 sugar units. Polysaccharides contain more than 10 sugar units.

Detailed explanation-2: -Polysaccharides. Polysaccharides also known as polymers, are long complex chains of many monosaccharides that are joined together by glyosidic bonds. They are formed by a series of condensation reaction and yield more than 10 molecules monosaccharides on hydrolysis.

Detailed explanation-3: -As a rule of thumb, polysaccharides contain more than ten monosaccharide units, whereas oligosaccharides contain three to ten monosaccharide units, but the precise cutoff varies somewhat according to the convention. Polysaccharides are an important class of biological polymers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Polysaccharides are polymers2 of monosaccharides. (Long chains of structural units are called polymers [poly means many in Greek].) Thus, polysaccharides are high-molecular weight carbohydrate molecules that contain many monosaccharide units.