CARBOHYDRATES ARE COMPOUNDS of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which are bound together to form a variety of sugars—glucose, galactose, fructose, maltose, sucrose, deoxyribose (the stuff found in DNA), and so on. Some of these are chemically complex and known as polysaccharides, some are simple and known as monosaccharides, and some are in between and known as disaccharides.
