NUTR 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dietary Fiber, Bran, Corn Syrup
Document Summary
Carbohydrates ideal nutrients to meet your body"s needs. Sugars 6 sugar molecules are important in nutrition. All end in ose which means sugar . Glucose most important energy cho, also known as blood sugar, or dextrose. Fructose in fruits, honey, and hfcs (high-fructose corn syrup) Galactose rarely free in foods, seen as part of milk sugar. Sucrose glucose + fructose table sugar table 4-11 terms that describe sugar pg. Maltose glucose + glucose germinating seeds and whenever starch is being digested. Lactose glucose + galactose dairy. Types of polysaccharides complex cho, long strands of glucose units. Starch is a plant"s storage form of glucose. Found in seeds and grains, starchy veggies. Nutritive for humans easily broken down for high energy. Long, straight chains of glucose molecules bonded together. Glycogen: storage form of glucose in animals and human beings. Glucose chains are longer and more branched. Undetectable in meats because glycogen break down rapidly when the animal is slaughtered.
