PRESS RELEASE â Digicel, in keeping with its mandate of employee development and growth today announced the promotion of Holly Hughes-McNamara to Regional CEO for St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada, and Siobhan James-Alexander to the position of Digicel St. Lucia Country Manager.
noun. Bread is a source of carbohydrates. Bread is a source of carbohydrates. The definition of a carbohydrate is an organic compound that occurs in living tissues or food and that can be broken down into energy by people or animals.arbohydrate. noun. Any of a group of organic compounds that includes sugars, starches, celluloses, and gums and serves as a major energy source in the diet of animals. These compounds are produced by photosynthetic plants and contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually in the ratio 1:2:1.
The name carbohydrate means watered carbon or carbon with attached water molecules. Many carbohydrates have empirical formuli which would imply about equal numbers of carbon and water molecules. For example, the glucose formula C 6 H 12 O 6 suggests six carbon atoms and six water molecules.he carbohydrates are the compounds which provide energy to living cells. They are compounds of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen with a ratio of two hydrogens for every oxygen atom. The carbohydrates we use as foods have their origin in the photosynthesis of plants. They take the form of sugars, starches, and cellulose.