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What's the relationship between sugars and carbohydrates?

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Dr. Martin Fried answered

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See below: long strings of sugars make up carbohydrates. When carbohydrates are digested, they are broken down into smaller sugars. The length of the sugars can be anywhere from 1 sugar glucose, fructose, to 2 sugar lactose, sucrose and to longer sugars.

Answered 1/25/2017

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