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Where does the body store carbohydrate short term?

Carbohydrates are absorbed by the body and converted into glucose. The glucose can be stored as fat or as glycogen in the liver or the muscles. There is no short term storage of carbohydrates.


What carbohydrate is stored in the liver?

Glycogen is the primary carbohydrate stored in the liver. It serves as a reserve of energy that can be broken down into glucose when needed by the body.


Starch is the stored carbohydrate in plants while is the stored carbohydrate in animals?

Glycogen is the stored carbohydrate in animals just as starch is the stored carbohydrate in plants. Both serve as a source of energy when needed by the organisms.


What glucose that is converted to what is stored in the liver?

glycogen


Where and in what form does the body store carbohydrates?

Carbohydrates are broken down to glucose molecules which can only be stored in very small amounts. Excess glucose which are not readily used are converted into glycogen and stored in fatty tissues of the body.


What are fats proteins and carbohydrates converted to?

They are converted to glucose. Excess is stored as fat.


Unused glucose that is converted to is stored in the liver.?

glycogen


What is unused glucose that is converted to is stored in the liver?

glycogen


How much of the available energy stored in glucose is converted to ATP?

About 67& of the energy in glucose is converted to ATP. The rest is lost as heat.


Excess glucose is converted to another type of sugar called what?

glucose is converted into a sugar called sucrose Excess glucose is stored as glycogen in your muscles and liver. It is released as needed between meals.


Where is excess glucose in the body stored?

Excess glucose in the body is stored in the liver and muscles as glycogen. Once these glycogen stores are full, any additional glucose is converted into fat and stored in adipose tissue for long-term energy storage.


What is the smallest unit any carbohydrate can be hydrolyzed to?

Glucose is the simplest monosaccharide or sugar and is the smallest unit any carbohydrate can be broken down to. It is the only carbohydrate the brain can use as fuel and the glucose is stored in the muscles and liver as glycogen which is a polymer of glucose.