It's all about a healthy lifestyle, says Ray Chung, MD, medical director of the liver transplant program at Massachusetts General Hospital. Taking care of your liver is far more about avoiding what's bad than it is about eating or drinking things that are particularly nourishing to the liver, he says.
Confidence votes 916. Glucose is an organic compound. Organic compounds by definition are compounds that contain carbon. Glucose is an organic compound. Organic compounds by definition are compounds that contain carbon.
Four important classes of organic moleculesâcarbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acidsâare discussed in the following sections. Carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are classified into three groups according to the number of sugar (or saccharide) molecules present: A monosaccharide is the simplest kind of carbohydrate. It is a single sugar molecule, such as a fructose or glucose (Figure 1). Sugar molecules have the formula (CH2O) n , where n is any number from 3 to 8. For glucose, n is 6, and its formula is C6H12O6.