Talk:Carbohydrate
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Inappropriate picture/caption
The image of very REFINED grain foods (white bread, pasta, flour, sugar are pictured) is captioned: "Unrefined grain products are rich sources of complex carbohydrates". This should be changed to a more appropriate image I think..
Merge proposal
Cursory inspection suggests that carbohydrate chemistry (which is not a strong article) should be merged into this article. --Smokefoot (talk) 15:52, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose Not necessarily. 120.16.218.233 (talk) 14:45, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
- Support I have moved all of the extra information from carbohydrate chemistry to this article. I request deletion of the article carbohydrate chemistry and redirect any regarding links to this article. Pygos (talk) 08:12, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
I have completed merging. Pygos (talk) 15:27, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Good work, thanks. ~Anachronist (talk) 18:17, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Systematic IUPAC nomenclature for carbohydrates
Should we add this to the article? In addition to the common name, carbohydrates also have a system of unique name rules. http://publications.iupac.org/pac/1996/pdf/6810x1919.pdf
Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2024
Template:Edit semi-protected Change covalent bonds to covalent bonds. 92.31.194.123 (talk) 15:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
- File:Yes check.svg Done. Thanks for the suggestion. ~Anachronist (talk) 15:37, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Carbohydrates and dietary fibre
The relationship between carbohydrates and dietary fibre needs proper explanation in the Dietary fibre article, and perhaps here. The word 'carbohydrate' does not currently occur in either the introduction or the Definition section of the Dietary fibre article. The UK's 'bible' of nutritonal data (MacCance and Widdowson, The Composition of Foods, 7th edn, 2015) lists fibre separately, but notes (p. 7) that some food tables may include dietary fibre in carbohydrates. Later it says, 'Where oligosaccharides are present in foods, they are not always measured separately and may be included in the starch, sugar or fibre fractions, … '
This suggests that different authorities may have different practices in this area, making it difficult for people to apply the data effectively. If there are variant practices, the article should say something about them, and Wikipedia should have a standard policy and stick to it wherever lists of constituents are given, e.g. using a heading such as 'Carbohydrates excluding dietary fibre'.
I have posted the same comment to the Dietary fibre article's talk page. EEye (talk) 15:09, 2 April 2025 (UTC)