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Carbohydrates are essential nutrients for your body. Your body can't function properly without them. When you eat food your body digests it and breaks down all the molecules you have eaten.
The carbohydrates break down and transform into glucose to fuel your cells.
Carbohydrates can be divided into two types, one is simple carbohydrates, the other iscomplex carbohydrates. The difference between these two carbohydrates is how long it takes to fully digest them.
Simple carbohydrates digest easily and rapidly, while complex carbohydrates take longer to be digested.
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Who are carbohydrates digested?
Carbohydrates are digested to give us energy to make us able to do daily activities.
Where are carbohydrates first digested in your bodies?
The digestion of carbohydrates begins in the mouth.
Which organs digest grains?
Grains are carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are digested by the small intestine.
When carbohydrates are digested what molecules can be absorbed?
monosaccharides
What substances are digested from the mouth to the large intestine?
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates that cannot be digested by the body are called?
Fiber.
Why rice is more easily digested than meat?
Carbohydrates are more easily digested than protein.
How is carbohydrates digested in the alimentary canal?
It is digested in the salivary glands and pancreas by the enzyme amylase. Converted into disaccharides.
What is the nutrient digested in the mouth?
Starch (carbohydrates) is broken down (digested) to maltose by salivary amylase.
Is it true structural carbohydrates are digested in the small intestine?
yes
Which type of food is digested down to simple sugar?
carbohydrates
What are carbohydrates changed into once thay have been digested?
Sugar!
