HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -Conventional table sugar is pure sucrose, made from either sugar cane or sugar beet. Although sucrose is commonly known as ‘sugar’, the term ‘sugars’ refers to all mono and disaccharides such as fructose, lactose and glucose, that can be naturally occurring in foods or added.

Detailed explanation-3: -carbohydrate. noun. car·bo·hy·drate ˌkär-bō-ˈhī-ˌdrāt.-drət. : any of various compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (as sugars, starches, or celluloses) most of which are formed by plants and are a major animal food.