Carbohydrates are sugar polymers, digestion breaks the polymer into its monomers, simple sugars like glucose.
Carbohydrates are broken down into glucose in your body.
Enzymes which are involved in the digestion of carbohydrates.
Salivary amylase, which is found inside the human mouth at the beginning of digestion, targets carbohydrates. These carbohydrates are specifically starches and are turned into sugars.
explain digestion of carbohydrates
Enzymes such as salivary amylase help break down starches and carbohydrates during digestion.
Mouth: in saliva there is this amylase enzym to break it down to sugar(s)
The hydrochloric acid in your digestive system activates an enzyme called pepsin that helps break down your food for digestion.
The process that breaks down most carbohydrates into simpler forms for absorption in the body is called digestion. During digestion, enzymes in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine break down carbohydrates into sugars that can be absorbed by the body.
Saliva contains the enzyme amylase, which is used in the first step of digestion to break down carbohydrates into simpler sugars.
Carbohydrates are digested until they are mono or disaccharides and then they are absorbed through the intestinal lining.
That would be incorrect. Digestion begins in the mouth, when the saliva starts to break up carbohydrates and the teeth start grinding up the food. However, protein digestion does begin in the stomach.
That would be chemical digestion, because carbohydrates are molecules, therefore they are also chemicals.