"carbohydrate" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it in any context where it is relevant, such as when discussing nutrition, chemistry, or biology. For example: "Eating too many carbohydrates can lead to weight gain."
Bread is served with meat-flecked goose fat instead of butter, and potatoes are the carbohydrate of choice – generally mashed with seasonal vegetables to make a typically Dutch stamppot.
Replacing lost ice-based hunting opportunities with foods available on land means switching from high-fat foods to primarily carbohydrate and protein-based foods.
She, however, was interested in exactly what stimulates peptide YY's release from the gut in the first place.She suspected that dietary protein might be more effective in stimulating its release than dietary carbohydrate.
The hydrogen then combines with carbon dioxide to create energy-rich carbohydrate compounds, the building blocks of the rest of biochemistry.
Penelope Nestel of the Micronutrient Global Leadership Project, in Washington, DC, showed that giving expectant mothers in poor countries a balanced dietary supplement of protein, carbohydrate and fat helped to boost the birth-weights of their babies.
It simulates carbohydrate, lipid and amino-acid metabolism, and models the actions of the gut, the absorption of intestinal nutrients, insulin release, and nutrient cycles in muscle, connective tissue, liver and other tissues.
Thanks to the sudden popularity of low-carbohydrate diets, such as Atkins and South Beach, sales of "low carb" beers like Miller Lite have soared.
Unilever paid $2.3 billion for SlimFast in 2000 only to see sales live up to the company name as low-carbohydrate diets, like the Atkins diet, rapidly gained in popularity.
Some of this is in response to consumer trends, in particular the rise of low-carbohydrate eating, thanks to the Atkins and South Beach diets.
A similar product for the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, dubbed Atkins2Go, is now being produced for mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
It failed to react to the worldwide craze for the low-carbohydrate Atkins diet in 2003.
