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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..

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]

Oppose Not necessarily. 120.16.218.233 (talk) 14:45, 13 April 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]

Systematic IUPAC nomenclature for carbohydrates[edit]

Should we add this to the article? In addition to the common name, carbohydrates also have a system of unique name rules. http://publications.iupac.org/pac/1996/pdf/6810x1919.pdf