How to Use monosaccharide in a Sentence

monosaccharide

noun

• 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 first is monosaccharides, or single sugar molecules, which include fructose, galactose, and glucose.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 24 June 2019
• 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
• Glycolaldehyde is a monosaccharide sugar, the basic unit of carbohydrates.
  — Clara Moskowitz, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2008
• 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