saccharide; sugar
Chemistry term for saccharides, including monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. In everyday contexts, it can refer broadly to sugars.
糖類は炭水化物の一種です。
Saccharides are a type of carbohydrate.
この飲料には多くの糖類が含まれている。
This beverage contains a lot of sugars.
糖類 is a category term covering various kinds of sugars, while 糖 is the general, singular term for sugar.
Compound of 糖 (tō, 'sugar') and 類 (rui, 'kind' or 'category'), literally 'sugar category'. The term is a modern scientific coinage for saccharides.