Normally, ingested disaccharides are passively absorbed by the intestinal mucosa 5 and are split, probably within the brush border of the mucosal cells, into their component monosaccharides. 6,7 ...

The disaccharide sucrose is only one step from its conversion into these two monosaccharides. This is one reason why refined carbohydrates enter the blood much more readily. Pathology of Refined Carbs ...

The commonly observed product ions resulting from collisional dissociation of a disaccharide into its monosaccharide components are B and C ions (charge retained on the non-reducing glycan) and Y ...