Complex carbohydrates may refer to:
- oligosaccharides, a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of component sugars (monosaccharides, also known as simple sugars)
- polysaccharides, polymeric carbohydrate structures, formed of repeating units (either mono- or di-saccharides) joined together by glycosidic bonds
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