Empty Calories Saturated fats and added sugars enhance the flavors and tastes of foods when cooking the foods and make the foods more...

Glycemic Index: A Helpful for Diabetics The glycaemic index (GI) tells us whether a carbohydrate-containing food raises blood glucose...

Sugar Substitutes to Lessen Empty Calories in the Diet Sugar substitutes are artificial sweeteners or natural sweeteners extracted from...

Starch Starchy foods are the body's primary source of energy. ​ Starchy foods are essential to a balanced diet, providing energy, fibre,...

The Polysaccharides: Starch and Fiber Starches and fibers are also called complex carbohydrates because they are made of long chains of...

Lactose: Lactose, a disaccharide, is the natural sugar in milk. ​ Although milk is not a food you think of as sweet, milk contains sugar...