The total caloric, or\u00a0energy, requirement for an individual depends on age, occupation, and other factors but generally ranges between 2,000 and 4,000\u00a0calories\u00a0per 24-hour period (one calorie, as this term is used in\u00a0nutrition, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1,000 grams of\u00a0water\u00a0from 15 to 16 \u00b0C [59 to 61 \u00b0F]; in other\u00a0contexts\u00a0this amount of heat is called the kilocalorie). Carbohydrate that can be used by humans produces four calories per\u00a0gram\u00a0as opposed to nine calories per gram of\u00a0fat\u00a0and four per gram of\u00a0protein. In areas of the world where nutrition is marginal, a high proportion (approximately one to two pounds) of an individual\u2019s daily energy requirement may be supplied by carbohydrate, with most of the remainder coming from a variety of fat sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although carbohydrates may compose as much as 80 percent of the total caloric intake in the human diet, for a given diet, the proportion of\u00a0starch\u00a0to total carbohydrate is quite variable, depending upon the\u00a0prevailing\u00a0customs. In\u00a0East Asia\u00a0and in areas of Africa, for example, where\u00a0rice\u00a0or\u00a0tubers\u00a0such as manioc provide a major\u00a0food\u00a0source, starch may account for as much as 80 percent of the total carbohydrate intake. In a typical Western diet, 33 to 50 percent of the caloric intake is in the form of carbohydrate. Approximately half (i.e., 17 to 25 percent) is represented by starch; another third by\u00a0table sugar\u00a0(sucrose) and\u00a0milk sugar\u00a0(lactose); and smaller percentages by monosaccharides such as\u00a0glucose\u00a0and\u00a0fructose, which are common in fruits, honey, syrups, and certain vegetables such as\u00a0artichokes,\u00a0onions, and\u00a0sugar beets. The small remainder consists of bulk, or indigestible carbohydrate, which\u00a0comprises\u00a0primarily the cellulosic outer covering of seeds and the stalks and leaves of vegetables. (See also<\/em>\u00a0nutrition.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The total caloric, or\u00a0energy, requirement for an individual depends on age, occupation, and other factors but generally ranges between 2,000 and 4,000\u00a0calories\u00a0per 24-hour period (one calorie, as this term is used in\u00a0nutrition, is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of 1,000 grams of\u00a0water\u00a0from 15 to 16 \u00b0C [59 to 61 \u00b0F]; in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carbohydrates"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}