Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's giant Green Bank Telescope have discovered a frigid reservoir of simple sugar molecules in a cloud of gas and dust some 26,000 light - years away, near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. (public.nrao.edu)
Complex sugars consumed by the organism can be broken down into simpler sugar molecules called monosaccharides such as glucose. (en.wikipedia.org)
Disaccharides are made up of two simple sugar molecules bonded together. (fitnessandpower.com)