That's not correct. Sugars are many things. The compound we describe chemically as C6H12O6 can be a sugar like Glucose or Fructose, but there are twists to the orientation of some of the atoms that means that the body can or cannot make use if it. There are iirc. *Eight* different configurations of the single 6-carbon sugar monomer. (One of them is cellulose, which we simply cannot digest).
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