Carbohydrates are compounds made up of oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen atoms and can be found in living tissue and food. Living organisms break down these compounds to release energy. Carbohydrates include sugars, sugar alcohols, sugar acids and derivatives, glycosyl compounds, and more; products include glycosyl compounds and monosaccharides.
Sucrose is used to prepare density gradients for cell/organelle separation. In addition, sucrose can be used as a supplement in plant, insect, and bacterial culture media. It can also be used in various enzymatic assays. Sucrose is used in molecular biology for the preparation of density gradients.