What qualifies a compound as a carb?

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Yes. A carbohydrate is any compound with CH2O as it's empirical formula.

Going by your (correct) statement, pyruvate is not a carbohydrate as it's molecular formula is C3H3O3 (empirical CHO) (CH3COCOO-).
 
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