Agricultural Research Service scientists are interested in specialized enzymes called serine-class proteases that digest beta-amylases, which convert carbohydrates into "simple sugars" during the sprouting process.

Rhubarb needs frost to convert carbohydrates into glucose and help the buds to grow.

Diabetes mellitus occurs when the body is unable to convert carbohydrates (for example- in a dog's case - choc drops, dog biscuits and cereal products) into energy.

Then in 1982, J.P. Flatt, a University of Massachusetts biochemist, published his research demonstrating that, in any normal diet, it is extremely rare for the human body to convert carbohydrates into body fat.

Like all B vitamins, niacin plays a role in converting carbohydrates into glucose, metabolizing fats and proteins, and keeping the nervous system working properly.

Only 3 percent of ingested calories are needed to put dietary fat into storage, but converting dietary carbohydrates into body fat uses up 23 percent of the calories consumed.

The body converts carbohydrates like glucose or sucrose into energy.

FASgen, based in Baltimore, aims to control cellular production of a chemical involved in converting carbohydrates to fat in all living things.

This vitamin is essential for bodily functions such as converting carbohydrates into glucose, which produces energy for the body.

In most cases, the cause of congenital lactic acidosis is due to a defect in an enzyme responsible for helping the body convert carbohydrates and fats into energy.