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Does boiling carbohydrates prevent them from breaking down into simple sugars?
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How do our bodies process the carbohydrates in foods?
Enzymes in saliva break down many carbohydrates, breaking them into simple sugar that our bodies can more easily use. The specific enzyme is beta-amylase.
Two types of carbohydrates are?
The two types of carbohydrates are simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are referred to as fast-acting carbohydrates. Sugars are considered simple carbohydrates. Starches are considered complex carbohydrates.
When you eat a piece of bread you consume carbohydrates which part of the cell is reponsible for breaking down a carbohydrate for use by the body?
It is not a part of a cell, it is an enzyme produced by cells that breaks down carbohydrates into the component simple sugars that the cells can use. These simple sugars are then "burned" by the mitochondria in cells.
Are sugars and carbohydrates related?
Sugar is one of the class of foods called carbohydrates. There are simple and complex carbohydrates, sugar is a simple one.
What foods is not considered a simple Carbohydrates?
Proteins are not simple carbohydrates. Lean meats of any kind including chicken, steak and fish are not a simple carbohydrate. Whole grains are also not considered simple carbohydrates.
Are monosaccharides proteins carbohydrates or lipids?
Monosaccharides are small units of carbohydrates.
What Carbohydrates made of one sugar molecule are called?
Simple carbohydrates
Are carbohydrates sugar?
carbohydrates are sugar molecules linked together
Are Cellusloseglycogen and starch are simple carbohydrates?
I don't think they are simple carbohydrates. I vaguely recall learning years ago in school that 'starch' is a complex carbohydrate. Therefore, I'm going to venture and say that neither of them a simple carbohydrates.
Foods that contain more nutrients than do simple carbohydrates?
complex carbohydrates
What is the basic units of carbohydrates?
The monomer units of carbohydrates are simple sugars such as glucose.
What are monomers for carbohydrates?
simple sugars
