Fun with Carbohydrates

2. A plant polysaccharide composed of glucose.
5. Known as fruit sugar.
7. The disaccharide known as the simple sugar.
12. The tough, fibrous structures of fruits, vegetable, and grains; they don't dissolve in water.
13. Sometimes known as blood sugar or dextrose.
14. A highly branched polysaccharide that is made and stored by liver and muscle tissues of human beings animals as a storage form of glucose.
15. Long chains of sugar units arranged to form starch or fiber.
17. The disaccharide known as the malt sugar.
18. Single sugar units.

1. Compounds composed of single or multiple sugars.
3. The disaccharide known as the milk sugar.
4. Food components that readily dissolve in water and often impart gummy or gel-like characteristics to foods.
5. The indigestible parts of plant foods, largely non-starch polysaccharides that are not digested by human digestive enzymes.
6. Compounds composed of long strands of glucose units linked together.
8. Part of the sugar in Lactose, found in milk.
9. Having a sticky, gummy, or gum-like consistency that flows relatively slowly.
10. Pairs of single sugars.
11. Both single sugar units and linked pairs of sugar units.
16. Known as small grains.