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Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories.

Monosaccharides are carbohydrates in the form of simple sugars. Like disaccharides, they are sweet, water soluble and crystalline.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Monosaccharides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.