Monosaccharides
Simplest carbohydrates that cannot be reduced to smaller carbohydrate units.
Single sugar units such as glucose, fructose, and galactose. Absorbed at the enterocyte brush border via SGLT1 (glucose, galactose) and GLUT5 (fructose), and exported on the basolateral side by GLUT2.
How one textbook covers it
Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism, 8th ed. (Gropper) — Glossary
Single sugar units such as glucose, fructose, and galactose. Absorbed at the enterocyte brush border via SGLT1 (glucose, galactose) and GLUT5 (fructose), and exported on the basolateral side by GLUT2.
Related terms
Anomeric carbon, Disaccharides, Oligosaccharides, Polysaccharides