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Disaccharides, especially glycosidic bonds.
Oligosaccharides and polysaccharides - Discussion of the important storage and structural polysaccharides (more on starch/glycogen and cellulose)
More on carbohydrate metabolism, especially their formation in photosynthesis.
Add material on membrane carbohydrates and their role in cell signalling; also other forms e.g. proteoglycan.
Improve references - more inline citations are required
Could there be a main article for carbohydrates and nutrition?
Seek formal assessment when complete and work on daughter articles, many of which are in poor condition.

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Inappropriate picture/caption[edit]

The image of very REFINED grain foods (white bread, pasta, flour, sugar are pictured) is captioned: "Unrefined grain products are rich sources of complex carbohydrates". This should be changed to a more appropriate image I think..

Chemistry[edit]

Corbohydreat 2409:4089:A09F:1289:C1F:C1A0:32DD:4B50 (talk) 13:56, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

what? Kaallboo (talk) 09:59, 9 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Biology[edit]

Describe components of carbohydrates and its categories in which they are grouped according to the number of sugar molecules they are composed of 41.210.159.19 (talk) 13:07, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal[edit]

Cursory inspection suggests that carbohydrate chemistry (which is not a strong article) should be merged into this article. --Smokefoot (talk) 15:52, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to insulin[edit]

The article includes “ Other polysaccharides contained in dietary fiber include resistant starch and inulin”. Insulin is a polypeptide comprised of 51 amino acids. It isn’t a polysaccharide. 2A00:23C8:4303:7F01:F587:E225:1D37:4BBD (talk) 11:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Biology[edit]

How We Describe Sugar? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 102.213.69.3 (talk) 10:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]