What Is the Make Up of Glucose?
Glucose is a unit of energy that is used by plants, animals and people. In people, glucose is what the body uses to perform mental and physical activities. Glucose is a monosaccharide made from a single sugar unit. Table sugar made from cane sugar is a disaccharide made from sucrose and glucose. Glucose can be manufactured by hydrolyzing sugar into a syrup or by drying it into a powdered form. From a chemical standpoint, glucose consists of 6 carbon atoms, 6 oxygen atoms and 12 hydrogen atoms.
