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this diet requires the purchase of expensive amino acids, however, it can
be quite pricey.

Monosaccharide Diets

Monosaccharide diets have a well-established track record for healing di-
gestive issues through the exclusion of disaccharide and polysaccharide
carbohydrates over a prolonged period of time.

As sugar molecules, carbohydrates are classified by the number of molecules
of sugar bound together. Monosaccharides consist of a single sugar mol-
ecule and are readily absorbed by the small intestine to provide nutrition
for the body. Disaccharides comprise two sugar molecules bound together,
while polysaccharides have multiple sugar molecules bound together.

Polysaccharides and disaccharides are too big to be absorbed by the small
intestine and must be broken down into monosaccharaides to be ab-
sorbed into the body.

Carbohydrate Types

Monosaccharide (single sugar molecules)

• Glucose

• Fructose

• Galactose

• Found in fruit, vegetables, honey

• Do not require further breaking down by brush border enzymes to be

absorbed

Disaccharides (two sugar molecules bound together)

• Lactose

• Sucrose

• Maltose

• Isomaltose

• Found in dairy (lactose) and table sugar (sucrose), from splitting

polysaccharides (maltose and isomaltose)

• Need to be split by brush border enzymes to be absorbed