Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates provide infants with an additional source of energy to support their growing bodies' needs and spare protein as a source of energy allowing the protein to be used as a building block for growth. In their simplest form a carbohydrates are called sugars, these sugars combine to form more complex molecules which are essentially chians of sugar. Oligosaccharides are chains of 3 to approximately 10 sugars.