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How do our bodies process the carbohydrates in foods?
Enzymes in saliva break down many carbohydrates, breaking them into simple sugar that our bodies can more easily use. The specific enzyme is beta-amylase.
Two types of carbohydrates are?
The two types of carbohydrates are simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are referred to as fast-acting carbohydrates. Sugars are considered simple carbohydrates. Starches are considered complex carbohydrates.
When you eat a piece of bread you consume carbohydrates which part of the cell is reponsible for breaking down a carbohydrate for use by the body?
It is not a part of a cell, it is an enzyme produced by cells that breaks down carbohydrates into the component simple sugars that the cells can use. These simple sugars are then "burned" by the mitochondria in cells.
Are sugars and carbohydrates related?
Sugar is one of the class of foods called carbohydrates. There are simple and complex carbohydrates, sugar is a simple one.
What foods is not considered a simple Carbohydrates?
Proteins are not simple carbohydrates. Lean meats of any kind including chicken, steak and fish are not a simple carbohydrate. Whole grains are also not considered simple carbohydrates.
What Carbohydrates made of one sugar molecule are called?
Simple carbohydrates
Are Cellusloseglycogen and starch are simple carbohydrates?
I don't think they are simple carbohydrates. I vaguely recall learning years ago in school that 'starch' is a complex carbohydrate. Therefore, I'm going to venture and say that neither of them a simple carbohydrates.
Foods that contain more nutrients than do simple carbohydrates?
complex carbohydrates
Type of carbohydrates?
simple and complex
What are monomers for carbohydrates?
simple sugars
What are complex carbohydrates broken down into?
Complex carbohydrates are broken down into simple carbohydrates -- also known as sugar.
Do Simple carbohydrates provide the body with long-lasting energy.?
No. Complex carbohydrates such as starches and fiber provide longer-lasting energy than simple carbohydrates, which are sugars. False apexvs
