Comparative Table for Glucose, Fructose, Galactose, Sucrose, Maltose

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• Glucose

• Galactose

• Sucrose

• Maltose

• It is a monosacharide

• It is a monosacharide

• glucose + fructose

• Glucose + glucose

• Fructose

• It is a monosaccharide  

• Catalyzes glucose uptake and storage in the liver

• Accelerates carbohydrate oxidation after a meal.

• Accelerates carbohydrate oxidation after a meal.

• Simple fruit sugar.

• Simple ketonic simple sugar found in many plant

• It is a disacharide

• It’s important function is in digestion

• reducing product in metabolism, and in brewing and distilling and used chiefly in foods and in biological culture media.

• It is a sweet carbohydrate

• provides your body with the energy required to perform physical and mental functions.

• It is a disaccharide

• Your body breaks down foods such as sucrose to turn into fructose  

• is a simple sugar that is normally transformed in the liver

• This sugar is quite abundant in human diets

• it is an important energy-providing nutrient.

•  is the main sugar found in blood.

• This sugar is an important source of energy and provides nutrients to the body's organs, muscles and nervous system.

• Glucose is stored as a polymer

• Located  in plants mainly as starch and amylopectin, and in animals as glycogen.

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