The Science of Diabetes
Sugar & Glucose
Glucose is considered a simple sugar or a monosaccharide. Other monosaccharides are fructose and galactose.
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Monosaccharides
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Glucose
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The main source of energy in cells
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Fructose
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The main sugar in fruit and honey
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Galactose
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Milk sugar
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Glucose |
Fructose |
Galactose |
Each of these monosaccharides has the same chemical formula - C6H12O6 - but they have different structures. If we eat fructose or galactose, the liver rapidly converts these sugars in to glucose.
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