Is one type of carbohydrates considered healthier for you? I would love a dumbed down explanation of the two.
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If you really want to break it down, in order from most to least complex carbs go like this:
Monosaccharides
Disaccharides
Oligosaccharides
Polysaccharides
Carbs are basically just repeating units of sugar, monosaccharides are well, just one of those. Join 2 monosaccharides together and you get disaccharides, and so on and so forth.
Polysaccharides and oligosaccharides are also known as “complex carbohydrates”
The only real difference between simple and complex carbs is their size.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that either is more healthy for you, but I will leave you with a fun fact.
A major part of the cell wall in plants, aka the reason why something like celery is very hard, is a sugar called cellulose.
Cellulose is a complex carbohydrate.
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