functional importance of carbohydrates

carbohydrates

Functional importance of carbohydrate

·         Ready source of energy .

·       -  It also constitutes the structural material of the organism.

·      -   Acts as important storage of food material of the body.

·    -     Protein and fat metabolized on the back ground of carbohydrate.

·        - It gives nutrition to the nervous tissue & retina.

·       -  It prevents ketosis.

·      -   Carbohydrate is a protein sparer, that is -carbohydrate is burned in preference to the burning of protein.