The combinations most important in the human diet are the monosaccharides
(e. g., glucose = dextrose), disaccharides (e. g., lactose = milk
sugar), and polysacccharides (e. g., starch). Our diet contains chiefly
monosaccharides contained especially in honey and fruit, disaccharides
in milk and in all foods sweetened with the common household sugar
saccharose (sucrose, cane sugar), and polysaccharides in vegetable
(starch) and animal (glycogen) products. Carbohydrates can only be
stored in small quantities in the body. For instance, during starvation
the total store of glycogen in the liver and the skeletal muscles (about
300−400 g) is used up in a day and a half. Because of their sweet taste,
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