Problems digesting carbohydrates that can lead to gas and bloating include. 1  lactose intolerance, a condition in which you have digestive symptoms such as bloating, gas, or diarrhea after eating or drinking milk or milk products.
1 Carbohydrates are used in many different ways in an organism. 2  Here polymers of Glucose that are involved in storage and structure are explored.
Starch (a polymer of glucose) is used as a storage polysaccharide in plants, being found in the form of both amylose and the branched amylopectin. In animals, the structurally similar glucose polymer is the more densely branched glycogen, sometimes called 'animal starch'.