But how does that glucose actually make its way into the cells of our body? Or more generally, how does the glucose actually make its way into our body in the first place? Well, via the ingestion of food. So if we eat a meal that is rich in carbohydrates, that's how the glucose actually makes its way into our body. So there are two types of sugar molecules carbohydrates that we typically ingest. So carbohydrates polysaccharides that come from plants, and carbohydrates polysaccharides that come from animals.