types of sugars found in milk, fruits, vegetables, and sweets.
Sugars composed of a single sugar molecule (monosaccharide) or two joined sugar molecules (a disaccharide), such as glucose, fructose, lactose, and sucrose. Simple carbohydrates include white and brown sugar, fruit sugar, corn syrup, molasses, honey, and candy.
Sugars such as sucrose, fructose, glucose and lactose.
Sometimes called simple sugars, include fructose, sucrose, and lactose as well as several other sugars.
usually used to refer to table sugar, or sucrose, a disaccharide; may refer also to the other disaccharides and monosaccharides.
Sugars, such as fructose, glucose, maple syrup and honey. So called because their chemical makeup consists of only 1 or 2 units as opposed to complex carbohydrates, which contain many.
Also known as sugars. Simple carbohydrates are found in "natural" foods, such as fruits and vegetables, and "refined" or "processed" foods, such as cookies, candy, and cakes. Simple carbohydrates provide calories but no other nutritional value.
