What Are Carbohydrates ? We recognize carbohydrates as carbs and sugars. Carbs constitute 80 of the total food calories intake. Carbohydrate, a term derived from the German ‘kohlenhydrat’ and similar to the French ‘hydrate de carbone’, expresses the early determined elemental composition of Cx(H2O)y, which signified a compo... Source : Low Calorie Treats