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Carbohydrates are sugar polymers, digestion breaks the polymer into its monomers, simple sugars like glucose.
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Into what substance do most carbohydrates break down during digestion?
Carbohydrates are broken down into glucose in your body.
How is the chemical digestion of carbohydrates brought about?
Enzymes which are involved in the digestion of carbohydrates.
What are a class of enzymes that break down 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 in detail the process of digestion and abosortion of carbohydrates?
explain digestion of carbohydrates
What do enzymes have to do with the digestive system?
Enzymes such as salivary amylase help break down starches and carbohydrates during digestion.
Chemical digestion of carbohydrates begins in this organ?
Mouth: in saliva there is this amylase enzym to break it down to sugar(s)
What fluid helps break down carbohydrates?
The hydrochloric acid in your digestive system activates an enzyme called pepsin that helps break down your food for digestion.
Digestion does not begain until food enters the stomach?
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.
In what form are carbohydrates absorbed?
Carbohydrates are digested until they are mono or disaccharides and then they are absorbed through the intestinal lining.
How digestion takes place through carbohydrates?
That would be chemical digestion, because carbohydrates are molecules, therefore they are also chemicals.
Where are carbohydrates first digested in your bodies?
The digestion of carbohydrates begins in the mouth.
Where does digestion of cereal Begin?
Digestion of cereal begins in the mouth. Mastication--chewing--breaks down the food. Saliva begins to break down carbohydrates contained in cereal grains. Digestion of cereal along with the milk continues in the stomach and small intestines.
