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Carbohydrate's digestion begins when you start chewing. As you chew the saliva secreted by the salivary glands mixes with your food. Before the food goes down the oesophagus (say eeso-pha-gus) or food pipe, the carbohydrates have now broken down and the energy is provided to the body.
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How is the chemical digestion of carbohydrates brought about?
Enzymes which are involved in the digestion of carbohydrates.
Explain in detail the process of digestion and abosortion of carbohydrates?
explain digestion of carbohydrates
Can digestion occur if you remove the stomach?
no. you would die. Actually, most digestion occurs in the small intestine anyway. Some proteins may not be properly digested, but carbohydrates and fats would be.
What does digestion break carbohydrates into?
Carbohydrates are sugar polymers, digestion breaks the polymer into its monomers, simple sugars like glucose.
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.
Digestion of complex carbohydrates begins where?
The Mouth
What fluid begins digestion of carbohydrates?
Saliva
Where does digestion first occur?
Digestion of food starts in the mouth. Saliva contains an enzyme that helps breakdown food.
During digestion carbohydrates are converted by enzymes into what?
Glucose
What is the breakdown and processing of complex carbohydrates in animals?
Digestion
Which nutrients requires the shortest time for digestion?
carbohydrates
