What is a Carbohydrate: Simplified

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Wondering, “what is a carbohydrate, really?” Let me explain what you need to know.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.
0:07.0	Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:12.0	Doctor Eric Burg.
0:14.0	Alright, today we're going to talk about carbohydrates and sugars and all the confusions that come along with a carbohydrate.
0:22.0	People talk about complex carbohydrates, simple carbohydrates, polysaccharides.
0:28.0	It's very, very confusing what is a carbohydrate and how is that different than a sugar?
0:33.0	So let's just clear that up.
0:35.0	Carbohydrates are made up of sugars, starches, and fiber.
0:41.0	The biochemical name for carbohydrate is a saccharide.
0:46.0	So basically, carbohydrates are a compound of these.
0:51.0	These are saccharides and carbohydrates are classified by the number of saccharides.
0:57.0	The Greek word for saccharides is sugar, okay?
1:02.0	Now we have mono-saccharides, okay?
1:05.0	Mano means single or one.
1:08.0	So mono-saccharide would be one of these that would be glucose or fructose or galactose.
1:18.0	This would be considered a simple sugar.
1:21.0	You also have dextrose and others, but I'm going to keep it fairly basic.
1:25.0	Next one, and there's four, okay, is dye saccharides.
1:31.0	Okay, dye means two.
1:33.0	Two of these right here, okay?
1:36.0	It's called two mono-saccharides.
1:38.0	So an example of a dye saccharide would be like table sugar or sucrose.
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