1. Plural of glyceraldehyde; simple three-carbon sugars (aldotrioses) that serve as fundamental building blocks in carbohydrate chemistry and metabolism.
Usage: technical; chemistry; biochemistry

Examples

• Glyceraldehydes are the simplest aldose sugars found in nature.
• The two enantiomers of glyceraldehyde, D-glyceraldehyde and L-glyceraldehyde, are mirror images of each other.
• Glyceraldehydes play a crucial role in glycolysis, the metabolic pathway that breaks down glucose.
• In biochemistry labs, students study glyceraldehydes to understand carbohydrate stereochemistry.
• The structure of glyceraldehydes contains three carbon atoms, one aldehyde group, and two hydroxyl groups.