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Simple Carbohydrates (examples and sources) contain one or two molecules; Commonly called sugar; a monosaccharide or disaccharide such as glucose; 7 examples: glucose, fructose galactose, ribose, lactose, maltose, and sucrose Complex Carbohydrates (examples and sources) a carb with three or more monosaccharides; A nutrient compound consisting of long chains of glucose molecules such as starch, glycogen, and fiber; examples: raffinose, stachyose, starch, glycogen, fiber. Monosaccharides. Glucose, fructose, galactose, and ribose; The simplest of carbohydrates.
What makes one carbohydrate different from another is the number of sugar units it contains and how the units are linked together. 1  Simple carbohydrates: These carbohydrates have only one or two units of sugar. A carbohydrate with one unit of sugar is called a simple sugar or a monosaccharide (mono = one; saccharide = sugar). Fructose (fruit sugar) is a monosaccharide, and so are glucose (blood sugar), the sugar produced when you digest carbohydrates, and galactose, the sugar derived from digesting lactose (milk sugar). A carbohydrate with two units of sugar is called a double sugar or a disaccharide (di = two). Sucrose (table sugar), which is made of one unit of fructose and one unit of glucose, is a disaccharide. Complex carbohydrates: Also known as polysaccharides (poly = many), these carbs have more than two units of sugar linked together.