Complex Carbohydrates

Complex carbohydrates may refer to:

  • oligosaccharides, a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of component sugars (monosaccharides, also known as simple sugars)
  • polysaccharides, polymeric carbohydrate structures, formed of repeating units (either mono- or di-saccharides) joined together by glycosidic bonds

Famous quotes containing the word complex:

    “In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness—a color, a weight, a texture—that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”
    —Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)