What TYPE of carb is in an apple?
What does "type" mean?? Is the correct answer monosaccharide or glucose?? I know that glucose is a type of monosaccharide, but is glucose also a type of carb?
I am confused about the answer.
Thanks!
What does "type" mean?? Is the correct answer monosaccharide or glucose?? I know that glucose is a type of monosaccharide, but is glucose also a type of carb?
I am confused about the answer.
Thanks!
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Answer: monosaccharide
The "type" of carbohydrate contained in an apple is monosaccharide, Apples have a greater ratio of fructose than glucose, and fructose is a monosaccharide as well.
A "carbohydrate" is just an organic compound with a formula in the form of C#H#O#, it will have some Carbon then some Hydrogen, then some Oxygen. Some of them are monosaccharides like glucose and fructose, some of them are disaccharides like sucrose (which is the refined sugar that people buy in stores and is made up of glucose and fructose and has a formula C12H22O11).
The "type" of carbohydrate contained in an apple is monosaccharide, Apples have a greater ratio of fructose than glucose, and fructose is a monosaccharide as well.
A "carbohydrate" is just an organic compound with a formula in the form of C#H#O#, it will have some Carbon then some Hydrogen, then some Oxygen. Some of them are monosaccharides like glucose and fructose, some of them are disaccharides like sucrose (which is the refined sugar that people buy in stores and is made up of glucose and fructose and has a formula C12H22O11).
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You are correct in assuming the sugar is a monosaccharide, fructose. Glucose has very little sweetness in comparison to fructose and sucrose. Glucose and fructose are isomers of each other. The structural arrangement of the atoms is different even though they have the identical formula, C6H12O6.