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saliva moistens your food and it begins to break down starchy foods.
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What are the functions of the digestive?
Saliva moistens food particles, helps bind them, and begins the chemical digestion of carbohydrates. Also solvent, it dissolves foods so they can be tasted.
What moistens foods makes it easier to swallow?
Saliva
Where does digestion?
Digestion begins in the mouth where saliva break down the foods into the bio-chemicals.
If a plain soda cracker is chewed for a while before swallowed it begins to taste sweet how does enzyme action cause this effect?
An amylase is an enzyme that breaks starch down into sugar. Amylase is present in human saliva, where it begins the chemical process of digestion Foods that contain much starch but little sugar, such as rice and potato, taste slightly sweet as they are chewed because amylase turns some of their starch into sugar in the mouth.
Do saliva work to break down starch into proteins?
It breaks it down and turns it into sugars, and that is why, if you chew starchy foods for long enough, they start to get sweeter.
What foods has stacrh in it?
Many foods have starch but some that are highest in starch content are potatoes and corn.
What foods have non starch polysaccharides in them?
phytate,starch,glycogen
Which foods have starch in them?
Noodles.
What foods do not have surgar or starch in them?
A beef steak hasn't sugar and starch.
What is the best choice to increase starch in the diet?
If you want to increase starch in your diet, you could include high starch foods. These foods include white bread and potatoes.
What other foods can be considered a starch?
Bread, potatoes and rice are considered forms of starch.
Is sugar the same as starch?
No, as it's digested starch turns into sugar, but they are different foods.
