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NTR 301 CARBOHYDRATES LEARNING
OBJECTIVES EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
GRADED A++ 2025/2026
Terms in this set (34)
Glucose - used by and cell for energy.
Systems that use glucose almost
Match the different exclusively for energy. Only time these
types of simple systems can use other sources of
sugars with their energy (monosaccharide or part of a
monosaccharide disaccharide/polysaccharide)
components, how Fructose - used by some cells for energy,
they are used in can be converted to glucose by the
the body and their liver(monosaccharide/part of a
major dietary disaccharide).
sources and the Galactose - can be converted to glucose
name of the simple by the liver(monosaccharide/part of a
sugar with other disaccharide).
names that it goes Lactose - disaccharide of galactose and
by glucose, also known as milk sugar
Sucrose - disaccharide of glucose and
fructose, also known as table sugar
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Sugar is a disaccharide of glucose and
Explain the fructose, but bees produce an enzyme
differences between that splits the sucrose into fructose
honey and sugar and glucose. When you consume
(sucrose) honey, you are consuming something
that contains the same monosaccharides
as table sugar, but bees chemically
change honey.
1. To provide sweetness
2. To provide "mouthfeel" or "bulk"
3. To soften other flavors
List the ways in i. Tomatoes in sauce, vinegar in salad dressing
which sugars are
used in food
processing.
4. To improve texture
5. As a preservative
i. Sugar-cured
Rank the sweetness from sweetest to most bitter: Fructose, Sucrose,
of fructose, sucrose, Glucose, Glactose, Lactose
glucose, lactose,
and galactose
. Where does it come from?
i. Corn starch → polysaccharides of glucose
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-Not sweet
ii. Convert polysaccharides to monosaccharides
of glucose
-Sweet
iii. Convert some of the glucose to fructose →
high fructose corn syrup
Explain what high
-Really sweet
fructose corn syrup
is, why food
manufacturers like to 2. Why do manufacturers like to use it?
use it and whether i. Cheaper
there should e - Use less (sweetener)
concerns about its - Domestic (made from corn)
consumption.
3. Concerns?
i. No good evidence that high fructose
corn syrup, in amounts normally
consumed by the typical American, is
any worse for you then sugar
Explain how the types -Sugar consumption increased over the
of sugar being used last 30 years, when people talk about all
have changed over the sugar in our diets, they mean the
time. simple sugars. US adults consume roughly
20% and children 25% of their total
calories from added sugars.
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NTR 301 CARBOHYDRATES LEARNING
OBJECTIVES EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
GRADED A++ 2025/2026
Terms in this set (34)
Glucose - used by and cell for energy.
Systems that use glucose almost
Match the different exclusively for energy. Only time these
types of simple systems can use other sources of
sugars with their energy (monosaccharide or part of a
monosaccharide disaccharide/polysaccharide)
components, how Fructose - used by some cells for energy,
they are used in can be converted to glucose by the
the body and their liver(monosaccharide/part of a
major dietary disaccharide).
sources and the Galactose - can be converted to glucose
name of the simple by the liver(monosaccharide/part of a
sugar with other disaccharide).
names that it goes Lactose - disaccharide of galactose and
by glucose, also known as milk sugar
Sucrose - disaccharide of glucose and
fructose, also known as table sugar
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,7/17/25, 8:59
AM
Sugar is a disaccharide of glucose and
Explain the fructose, but bees produce an enzyme
differences between that splits the sucrose into fructose
honey and sugar and glucose. When you consume
(sucrose) honey, you are consuming something
that contains the same monosaccharides
as table sugar, but bees chemically
change honey.
1. To provide sweetness
2. To provide "mouthfeel" or "bulk"
3. To soften other flavors
List the ways in i. Tomatoes in sauce, vinegar in salad dressing
which sugars are
used in food
processing.
4. To improve texture
5. As a preservative
i. Sugar-cured
Rank the sweetness from sweetest to most bitter: Fructose, Sucrose,
of fructose, sucrose, Glucose, Glactose, Lactose
glucose, lactose,
and galactose
. Where does it come from?
i. Corn starch → polysaccharides of glucose
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-Not sweet
ii. Convert polysaccharides to monosaccharides
of glucose
-Sweet
iii. Convert some of the glucose to fructose →
high fructose corn syrup
Explain what high
-Really sweet
fructose corn syrup
is, why food
manufacturers like to 2. Why do manufacturers like to use it?
use it and whether i. Cheaper
there should e - Use less (sweetener)
concerns about its - Domestic (made from corn)
consumption.
3. Concerns?
i. No good evidence that high fructose
corn syrup, in amounts normally
consumed by the typical American, is
any worse for you then sugar
Explain how the types -Sugar consumption increased over the
of sugar being used last 30 years, when people talk about all
have changed over the sugar in our diets, they mean the
time. simple sugars. US adults consume roughly
20% and children 25% of their total
calories from added sugars.
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