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What is a carbohydrate?

What is a carbohydrate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant; a saccharide.
  2. (nutrition) a food rich in starch or other carbohydrates
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Inulin is a soluble carbohydrate of much lower molecular weight than either amylose or amylopectin.
The residue was redissolved in 1 ml distilled water and used for total soluble carbohydrate determination.
When I baked pies and pastry back in my pre-low carbohydrate days, I used leaf lard for my pie crusts.
The key to protein cycling is to raise carbohydrate and healthy fat intake during the readaptation phase.
The material of choice is agarose, a carbohydrate polymer purified from a salt water algae.
This antigen had rhamnose side chains at least a disaccharide in length and was the antigenic determinant of A-variant carbohydrate.

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