Disaccharides Our daily diet has three main types of disaccharides: sucrose, lactose, and maltose.  Sucrose is a disaccharide, the sugar...

Monosaccharides In addition to glucose, there are two other monosaccharides, galactose and fructose, most often in the human diet.  ​ For...

Sugars Sugars are carbohydrates. The natural sugar in fruits is glucose and fructose, and the natural sugar in milk is lactose. Table...