How to Use monosaccharide in a Sentence

monosaccharide

noun
  • Tagatose is a monosaccharide, or simple sugar, just like fructose and glucose.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s no science to say that fructose is a worse monosaccharide for the body than any other, Tewksbury says.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 24 June 2019
  • The simplest carbohydrates are monosaccharides (simple sugars), made from just one sugar unit.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The first is monosaccharides, or single sugar molecules, which include fructose, galactose, and glucose.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 24 June 2019
  • This disaccharide is different from the digestible simple monosaccharide sugars birds consume when eating the fruit on your trees.
    — Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 24 May 2026
  • Honey is mainly made of simple sugars (monosaccharides), but also contains more complex sugars, or oligosaccharides.
    — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Polysaccharides are complex carbohydrates made of long chains of simple sugar molecules, or monosaccharides.
    — Paul McClure 10, New Atlas, 10 June 2025
  • Glycolaldehyde is a monosaccharide sugar, the basic unit of carbohydrates.
    — Clara Moskowitz, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2008
  • Most fruits contain some fructose, a monosaccharide (single sugar molecule) considered a natural sugar.
    — Jamie Johnson, Verywell Health, 11 July 2024
  • The simplest, most fundamental unit of a carbohydrate is a monosaccharide—a single sugar molecule—made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 May 2019
  • Your body responds by secreting digestive enzymes to break down the disaccharide molecule sucrose (or table sugar) into the monosaccharide glucose.
    — Kate Morgan, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Simple carbohydrates include monosaccharides and disaccharides, while complex carbohydrates are polysaccharides like fiber and starch.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 11 June 2025
  • The dietary approach is known as low fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols, or the Low-FODMAP Diet for short.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 21 Nov. 2025
  • FODMAPs are fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols.
    — Cynthia Sass, Health, 13 Nov. 2025
  • High-fiber foods that are low-FODMAP—low on fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols, all of which are carbs that are absorbed poorly by the gut and can trigger distress as a result—could come to the rescue.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The researchers discovered that the gastrointestinal symptoms are largely caused by fermentable carbohydrates (another wheat component), which are also known as fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols (FODMAPs).
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Fructose May Cause Digestive Issues for Some People Because pears contain a naturally higher amount of fructose, they’re considered a high FODMAP (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols) food.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025

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