Instead of being only a string of glucose units, bacterial cellulose also had an appendage containing nitrogen and phosphorus. (sciencenews.org)
Food chemist Steve Jobling at Unilever Research in Sharnbrook, United Kingdom, and colleagues at the National Starch and Chemical Co. in Bridgewater, New Jersey, blocked starch synthases, enzymes that stitch glucose units into long chains. (sciencemag.org)
After your gastrointestinal tract digests starch to single glucose units, the resulting sugars serve the same purpose as your other dietary sugars. (healthyeating.sfgate.com)