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How carbohydrates enter and break down in the human body?

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Carbohydrates are sugars and polysaccharides (which are lots of sugar molecules bonded together). Monosaccharide sugars are absorbed from the gut into the bloodstream. Cells then use them as fuel.

If polysaccharides can be digested, the gut (more accurately, enzymes in the gut)breaks them into monosaccharides and these are absorbed into the bloodstream.

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