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Is cellulose a sugar?

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However, cellulose is not converted to glucose in your body. In other words, you can eat as much of it as you want. Only diabetic deer and bunnies need to worry about eating cellulose because they have bacteria liviing in their gut that greak cellulose down. read more

Meanwhile, cellulose is an important part in plants where it is commonly found in the plant’s cell wall and is the most common organic compound. Cellulose is formed when the plant links the glucose together to form long chains of glucose. The chains are called polysaccharides (poly = many, saccharine = sugar or glucose). read more

Cellulosic ethanol is a type of biofuel produced from lignocellulose, a structural material that comprises much of the mass of plants. Lignocellulose is composed mainly of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. read more

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