Carbohydrates
General
General
Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, Polysaccharides, simple and complex
What are types of carbohydrates
When eaten alone, simple carbohydrates may cause a rapid _____ in blood sugar.
What is Rise?
You’ll find this orange root vegetable in many fall dishes and soups — and it’s packed with beta-carotene and complex carbs.
What are Sweet Potatoes?
This source of sodium is easy to blame, and people assume that cutting it out will drastically decrease their sodium intake.
What is Table Salt or Salt Shaker?
Enzyme that begins to breakdown carbohydrates in the mouth.
What is amylase?
Most abundant carbohydrate in nature and most desirable form of energy for the body
What is the Glucose?
Monosaccharide found in plants
What is glucose?
Monosaccharide found in fruit.
What is fructose?
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, this macronutrient replaced fat as the new dietary "villain."
What are Carbs?
Process of converting excess glucose into glycogen for storage in liver and muscle tissue.
What is glycogenesis?
plants use the chlorophyll in their leaves to absorb the energy in sunlight
What is photosynthesis?
Glucose + Glucose
What is Maltose (disaccharide)?
Glucose + Fructose
What is sucrose (disaccharide)?
Glucose + Galactose
What is Lactose?
Causes release of glucose from stored glycogen.
What is glucagon?
Branched chains of glucose units that digest faster, rice, potatoes, pasta
What is Amylopectin (starch)?
Straight chains of glucose units that digest slower include: beans, lentils
What is amylose (starch)?
Starch, Fiber and Glycogen
What are polysaccharides or types of complex carbs?
This trendy detox method claims to “cleanse” your body, but your liver and kidneys already do that naturally.
What is a Juice Cleanse?
Production of glucose from NONcarbohydrate sources?
What is gluconeogenesis?
When someone drastically cuts carbohydrates out of their diet, the body will shift into a metabolic state called _________.
What is Ketosis?
Added to food like breakfast cereal (psyllium)
What is functional fiber?
This is a type of carbohydrate that the human body cannot digest or absorb.
What is fiber?
A common nutrition belief is that certain foods like grapefruit, cayenne pepper, and vinegar can ______ fat off your body.
What is Melt?
Process that increases blood sugar levels by converting stored glycogen to glucose.
What is glycogenolysis?