Talk:carbohydrate

Energy equivalent

(Now moved to plural. Davilla 12:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC))

The following was removed from the definition:

or food energy (4 kcal/gram)

because the nutritional energy of any particular food would depend on the type. Davilla 11:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

cellulose

I think it is misleading to list cellulose as a carbohydrate. How are we to reflect that it is not considered a carbohydrate nutritionally, that is, for human nutrition? Also I think there might be a distinction between carbohydrates as molecules, e.g. the various simple sugars, and carbohyrdates as foods, or the food group. But this might be repeating the question above. It would appear that the term can be considered different in different contexts, and we should be careful not to oversimplify. Davilla 22:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)