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.
In other words, the complex carbohydrates are long chains of simple sugar units bonded together (for this reason the complex carbohydrates are often referred to as polysaccharides). Starch (above) is a polymer of the monosaccharide glucose (n is the number of repeating glucose units and ranges in the 1,000's). Starches and cellulose are complex carbohydrates used by plants for energy storage and structural integrity.