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carbohydrate

UK/kɑːbəʊˈhaɪdɹeɪt/US/kɑɹboʊˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,114 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: carbohydrates

A carbohydrate is the energy food group of bread, pasta and rice. Cut the carbohydrate, complex carbohydrate, carbohydrate loading.

The body breaks them all down to sugars, and the difference between complex and simple is how fast that happens. Runners eat extra before a race, a practice known as carbohydrate loading.

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Definitions of carbohydrate

  1. 1nouncarbohydrateThe energy food group of bread, pasta, and rice.B2+

    “If you cut out carbohydrate completely, you may feel tired and short of energy.”

carbohydrate is a nutrient.

Also accepted in games: carbs, carb

Where it comes from

Named from the formula of these compounds, which was once read as carbon combined with water.

From carbo- + hydrate. From their general formula Cn(H2O)n; they were once thought to be hydrates of carbon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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carbohydrate in the wild

  • For the simplest carbohydrates, the carbon-to-hydrogen-to-oxygen atomic ratio is 1:2:1, i.e. they are often represented by the empirical formula (CH2O)n.

    Carbohydrate

  • When animals and fungi consume plants, they use cellular respiration to break down these stored carbohydrates to make energy available to cells.

    Carbohydrate metabolism

  • While carbohydrates are essential to human biological processes, consuming them is not essential for humans.

    Carbohydrate metabolism

  • The glycemic index is usually applied in the context of the quantity of the food and the amount of carbohydrate in the food that is actually consumed.

    Glycemic index

  • A related measure, the glycemic load (GL), factors this in by multiplying the glycemic index of the food in question by the carbohydrate content of the actual serving.

    Glycemic index

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