Everybody loves sugar, but the best part is that our body actually needs it for energy! Glucose is a monosaccharide, otherwise known as a sugar. The formula for glucose is C6H12O6. It contains high energy carbon bonds. When a cell needs energy it breaks down the glucose via glycolysis and cellular respiration and then energy in the carbon bonds eventually gets transferred the to ADP allowing it to form ATP.
In glycolysis energy is transferred from bonds in the glucose molecule to phosphate bonds in ATP and GTP, and hydrogen bonds in NADH and FADH. Your body then uses the ATP produced to power cellular processes. It’s all a matter of energy transfer.
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