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- noun Plural form of
carbohydrate . - noun nutrition A
major class offoods that includessugars andstarches .
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Examples
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-- Like fats, the food substances included in the term carbohydrates supply the body with energy.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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Diet plays an extremely important role and a diet high in carbohydrates and sugars and low in vegetables is bound to toss many people towards big highs and big lows, leading to unstable emotional conditions.
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But the obsessive avoidance of carbohydrates is entirely in line with the current multi-billion dollar diet industry, and is a nutritional disaster.
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But the obsessive avoidance of carbohydrates is entirely in line with the current multi-billion dollar diet industry, and is a nutritional disaster.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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And they contain carbohydrates, usually glucose, to provide energy, facilitate the absorption of liquid, and make the drink taste better.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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And they contain carbohydrates, usually glucose, to provide energy, facilitate the absorption of liquid, and make the drink taste better.
Hoist on its own potassium: Gatorade loses to Powerade Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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One of most important advances of the decade involved painstaking work that helped demonstrate that the formation of esters from carbohydrates is indeed an intermediate reaction in glycolysis.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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It seems that I can't digest anything high in carbohydrates without extreme LI symptoms.
Answers to Questions from Readers, Part 18a Steve Carper 2008
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It's also lower in carbohydrates, which means even less lactose for lactose-intolerant people.
In: Icelandic Yogurt Steve Carper 2008
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It seems that I can't digest anything high in carbohydrates without extreme LI symptoms.
Answers to Questions from Readers, part 14 Steve Carper 2008
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