Thursday, January 6, 2011

What food group is flour from?

Flour is a carbohydrate, it is mainly made up of carbon
and hydrogen hence its name.


Sugars are also in this group,
but they are more simple and contain only one or a few subunits so they ar
monosaccharides or disaccharides or even oligosaccharides, whereas starches, which is
what flour is, contains many subunits, or saccharides that is why it is also called
a polysaccharide.


This is a more detailed answer in case
you were not referring to the food pyramid, but to
macromolecules.

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