| A | B |
| Simple Carbs | Sugar |
| Monosaccharides | glucose/ galactose/ fruitose |
| glucose | blood sugar |
| galactose | part of milk sugar |
| fruitose | fruit sugar |
| Dissacharides | maltose, sucrose, lactose |
| maltose | malt sugar |
| sucrose | table sugar |
| lactose | milk sugar |
| *maltose | *glu-glu |
| *sucrose | *glu-fru |
| *lactose | *glu-gla |
| *created by dehydration synthesis | *for dissacharides |
| complex carbs | 50-1000 times the units of glucose |
| digestible by amylase enzyme | starch(grains) and glycogen(liver or muscle) *branching structure |
| non-digestible by amylase enzyme | cellulose *linear sheets not accessible by amylase |
| CHO | Carbohydrates and Lipids |
| CHON | Proteins and Nucleic Acids |