Difference between Sugar and Carbohydrate

What is the difference between Sugar and Carbohydrate?

Sugar as a noun is sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. while Carbohydrate as a noun is a sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant; a saccharide.

Sugar

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar. To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: Used in place of shit!

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink. When used to sweeten drink, an amount of such crystalline sucrose approximately equal to five grams or one teaspoon. Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy. A generic term for sucrose, glucose, fructose, etc. A term of endearment. A kiss. Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality. Diabetes.

Example sentence: Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Carbohydrate

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sugar, starch, or cellulose that is a food source of energy for an animal or plant; a saccharide.

We hope you now know whether to use Sugar or Carbohydrate in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles