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all right today we’re going to talk

about carbohydrates and sugars and all

the confusions that come along with a

carbohydrate people talk about complex

carbohydrates simple carbohydrates

polysaccharides it’s very very confusing

what is a carbohydrate and how does that

different than a sugar so let’s just

clear that up carbohydrates are made up

of sugars starches and fiber the

biochemical name for a carbohydrate is a

saccharide so basically carbohydrates

are a compound of these these are

saccharides and carbohydrates are

classified by the number of saccharides

the Greek word for saccharides is sugar

okay now we have monosaccharides okay

mono means single or one so

monosaccharide would be one of these

that would be glucose or fructose or

galactose this would be considered a

simple sugar

you also have dextrose in others but I’m

going to keep it fairly basic next one

and there’s four okay is dye saccharides

okay dye means two two of these right

here okay it’s called two

monosaccharides so an example of a

disaccharide would be like table sugar

or sucrose that’s the same thing sucrose

is composed of two of these glucose and

fructose another example would be

lactose milk sugar it’s composed of

glucose and galactose okay so that’s

what a disaccharide is pretty simple the

disaccharide and these other two I’m

going to talk about make up the complex

carbohydrates okay so this is a simple

these are the complex okay now we’re

gonna get to a legal saccharides so

illegal saccharides are three to nine of

these guys right here all right last one

polysaccharides poly means many

and this would be about 10 or more of

these guys okay

and that would be like a starch here are

some examples potato rice wheat and corn

okay

those are starches these are composed of

many of these guys right here connected

together and then you have the fiber is

an example of a polysaccharide that

would be called sails

the thing about fiber that you should

know is that fiber helps decrease the

absorption of sugar so the more fiber

you have like in celery the less

absorption of sugar you’re gonna have

also fiber decreases the sugar response

so it decreases the sugar spike well

guess what that’s it that’s the

complexity of a carbohydrate in

relationship to a simple sugar complex

sugars saccharides starches and fiber

the next thing that would be good for

you to know would be more on the

glycemic index I put that video right

here