The Big Six Sugars

Everything that people call a sugar consists of the same atomic raw materials Sugars are all different combinations of carbon Hydrogen and oxygen. Fucose has six carbon atoms 12 hydrogen atoms, so that's the the two-to-one ratio that we expect but then there's only five Oxygen atoms which throws off the two to one to one rule slightly. Trisaccharides Three sugars bonded together Raphanose is one that you might have heard of before Supercomin in seeds and therefore an even number of distinct human beings sucrose table sugar Consists of one glucose and one fructose sharing an oxygen atom between them So one molecule of sucrose consists of 12 carbon atoms total But