Glycosides are compounds containing a carbohydrate molecule (sugar) bound to a non-carbohydrate moiety. These compounds are mainly found in plants, and they can be converted, by hydrolytic cleavage, into a sugar and a non-sugar component (aglycone). They are named specifically by the type of sugar that they contain, as glucosides (glucose), pentosides (pentose), fructosides (fructose), etc. (Bernal et al., 2011).