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What happens to the starch in fruit as fruit ripens?
A starch is actually a long chain of sugar molecules. As the fruit ripens, the starches break apart into the sugar molecules. This is why they become sweeter as they ripen.
How can an iodine stain be used to distinguish between ripe and unripe fruit?
If you add Iodine-KI reagent to foods containing - starch such as bread, potato, crackers, or flour. A blue-black color results.If starch is not present, then the color will stay orange or yellow. (Iodine will not turn blue-black on contact with cellulose or disaccharides such as sucrose in sugar).Thus if you apply Iodine to an unripe fruit (where the sugars are still held as starch) the fruit will turn Blue-Black.However, once the fruit is ripe and the starch has been transformed into sweet sugar, the application of Iodine will only stain the fruit orange or yellow.
Do vegetarians eat fruit preserves?
Yes- it is fruit and sugar.
Why might plant storage organs (such as fruit or tuber) contain both starch and sugar?
Starch and sugar are essentially the same thing. Starch is a polymer (chain) of single sugar molecules. As the starch is made up or broken down, you would expect to find both in the cells responsible for this action.
Is corn fruit or vegetable.?
Botanically, corn is a grain or dry fruit.
What happens when you eat corn starch?
When you eat corn starch, it gets broken down in your body into glucose, which is a type of sugar. This glucose can then be used by your body for energy.
Does starch have sugar?
no, starch is sugar fool
Are starch and sugar synonymous?
Starch is an indigestible form of sugar.
Why can't hamsters eat fruit?
they have alot of sugar in theme
Are green bananas a starch?
Certain enzymes in bananas convert starch in the banana into sugar, which is part of the ripening process and what makes the fruit sweeter and softer as it ripens. Therefore, the greener the fruit is the more starch it will contain.
What do legumes provide for rhizobium bacteria?
Sugar and starch.
Is wholegrain sugar or starch?
Starch
