carbohydrate
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- noun
- /ˈkɑːrboʊhaɪdreɪt/
- Specialized
:
carbohidrato
- Foods like pasta and bread are rich in carbohydrates, which fuel the body during exercise.
- complex carbohydrates
- simple carbohydrates
- carbohydrates or sugars
Because all carbohydrates are built of sugar.
- Because all carbohydrates are built of sugar.
- Glucose is the simplest breakdown product of all carbohydrates or virtually all carbohydrates.
- So when they're eating carbohydrates, brain cells use mainly glucose.
- And so if you don't eat carbohydrates, you don't have a source of glucose.
- Yeast in the air will break down the sugars in our carbohydrate source to create alcohol.
- Remember, protein and carbohydrates both stimulate insulin.
- We know that fat and carbohydrate are these sort of simple macro nutrients.
- Plants inhale carbon dioxide and they turn it into the carbohydrates which plant with which cows then eat.
- So you want to only fry low carbohydrate foods like meats.
- You'll eat more carbohydrate dense, calorie dense foods.
- What's a better base for carbohydrates for you to add into a meal?
- You're saying it's not like all carbohydrates are bad for your LDL.
- So like, I'm aware that carbohydrates will sedate me.
- People have a simple carbohydrate based diet.
Examples
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Much research has been done to attempt to understand carbohydrate metabolism better and differentiate good carbohydrates from bad.
Academic text (2004) -
I eat even healthier, have to watch my carbohydrate and sugar intake.
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Do you know how much carbohydrate you store and where?
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Few other plants produce so much carbohydrate, sugar, and fat in as short a growing season.
Academic text (1992) -
Diabetes is not and never was caused by eating a high carbohydrate diet and it's not caused by eating sugar.
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There is a great diversity of carbohydrate content among traditional Native American diets.
Academic text (2004) -
I remember trying the Atkins diet, which was low carbohydrate, high protein.
Academic text (1997) -
The consumption of two complex-carbohydrate foods per meal was common, especially in northern states.
Academic text (2003) -
Animal diets are often described by their protein, lipid, and carbohydrate content.
Academic text (2011) -
It's really about healthy foods, less processed foods, less simple carbohydrates and more Whole Foods.
Synonyms
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A food high in carbohydrate, like bread or pasta
A substance like sugar or starch that gives living things energy and helps form parts of cells
A chain of sugar units attached to proteins or fats in living cells
Compounds
To eat more foods like bread, pasta or rice before long exercise to increase energy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carbohydrate comes from the roots carbon and hydrate, and hydrate means 'water', just like the common word hydrate means 'to give water'. So a carbohydrate is basically 'carbon with water' in foods, which helps explain why carbohydrates are a main source of quick energy for the body.