Carbohydrates

=Carbohydrates= By Jared Bessett (AKA HushJROD AKA McButt)

Carbohydrates (carbs) are just another thing you can't live without. Basically, carbs are just organic compounds consisting of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. To be classified as a Carbohydrate, the compound must have a ratio of 1;2;1. For example, glucose is C6 H12 O6, and fructose is C5 H10 O5. Once in a while, and exception will come along, such as [|Deoxyribose]. Most carbs are recognizable by the "-ose" suffix. For example, G[|lucose],[| Fructose], S[|ucrose], L[|actose], M[|altose] and G[|alactose]are carbohydrates with the suffix "-ose." However, S[|tarch] and G[|lycogen] are all carbohydrates without this specific suffix. Now even though the break down of the word "Carbohydrate" means //Hydrated Carbon//, Carbs are actually [|polyhydroxy aldehydes] and [|ketones]. When you try to tell people about carbohydrates, they will most likely think of bread and potatoes and all these things that the food industry and media have pounded into their impressionable skulls, so when referring to carbs scientifically, you should probably use the term saccharides, which is just the real name for carbohydrates. Saccharides are broken up into four different chemical groupings ( [|monosaccharides], [|disaccharides] , [|oligosaccharides] , and [|polysaccharides] .) Monosaccharides and disaccharides are most commonly known as [|sugars]. Now, because you've most likely been a victim of the media and food industry's skull-pounding, this is probably confusing you. Sugars are Carbs? If Sugars are Carbs, then why are they broken up on a nutrition box? Well, when people started to worry about their health, food companies wanted it to look like they had less sugars than they did, so they had sugars AND carbs, so people thought things only had half the sugars than it actually did. People still fall for this every day, because people don't truly believe that there is sugar in bread or carbs in candy. This is because people think carbs put on fat and sugar is sweet, which is true, but not always. [|Here] is a Nutrition Facts Label with sugars and carbs listed separately. Notice that it has 44 carbs, yet no sugar. This is wrong. It has 44 grams of sugar, therefore it has 44 grams of carbs and vice-versa. There is on either, or or and. Sugars and Carbs are the same. Hopefully now you are free of the beliefs that the food industry have given you. Carbohydrates are just sugars, simple as that, an without them, the universe could not exist.