If it is criminal to leave a 13-year old alone to babysit children, then I am one guilty editor with a lot of guilty girlfriends. The summer I turned 12, I was working as a mother's helper for a woman who had two young girls. She would regularly leave me unattended to watch the girls while she ran errands.
Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates and may be subcategorized as aldoses or ketoses. The sugar is an aldose if it contains an aldehyde functional group. A ketose signifies that the sugar contains a ketone functional group.
Monosaccharides. Monosaccharides are the basic building blocks of carbohydrates. The two most common simple sugars are glucose, which is both made in the body and found in foods, and fructose. Glucose and fructose combine to make sucrose, or common table sugar. A third common monosaccharide is galactose, which the body makes from sugars in dairy products. Sweeteners Whole foods that act as natural sweeteners are the richest sources of the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, usually in combination.