Sugar is made up of how many elements?

Answer 1

SUGAR IS MADE UP OF 3 ELEMENTS (CARBON, OXYGEN, HYDROGEN)
In science, sugar refers to any monosaccharide or disaccharide. Monosaccharides (also called "simple sugars"), such as glucose, store energy which biological cells use and consume. In a list of ingredients, any word that ends with "ose" probably denotes a sugar.

Biochemists regard sugars as relatively simple carbohydrates. Sugars include monosaccharides, disaccharides, trisaccharides and the oligosaccharides - containing 1, 2, 3, and 4 or more monosaccharide units respectively. Sugars contain either aldehyde groups (-CHO) or ketone groups (C=O), where there are carbon-oxygen double bonds, making the sugars reactive. Most sugars conform to (CH2O)n where n is between 3 and 7. A notable exception, deoxyribose, as its name suggests, has a "missing" oxygen atom. As well as being classified by their reactive group, sugars are also classified by the number of carbons they contain. Derivatives of trioses (C3H6O3) are intermediates in glycolysis. Pentoses (5 carbon sugars) include ribose and deoxyribose, which are present in nucleic acids. Ribose is also a component of several chemicals that are important to the metabolic process, including NADH and ATP. Hexoses (6 carbon sugars) include glucose which is a universal substrate for the production of energy in the form of ATP. Through photosynthesis plants produce glucose which is then converted for storage as an energy reserve in the form of other carbohydrates such as starch, or as in cane and beet as sucrose.

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Answer 2

Table sugar has the chemical name sucrose. It is a relatively simple
molecule made of 12 atoms of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, and 11 of oxygen.
The carbon atoms are arranged in two rings, joined at one point through
a connection made of one of the oxygen atoms.

The chemical makeup (including the arrangement of atoms) is important to
humans and forms of life because a lot of energy can be released from
the molecule when it is processed to carbon dioxide and water or, in
some cases, to ethyl alcohol or lactic acid.

Answer 3

C, H, O

there are 3 molecules commonly called sugar and they all have the same formula.

Answer 4

So the simple answer is three. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Answer 5

3
C, H & O