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Which enzyme digests starches?
Amylase is the enzyme that digests starch.
What enzyme helps you digest starch?
Amylase digests starch
What is the name of the enzyme that digests starch?
AMYLASE
What is the enzyme that digests starch?
The enzyme that digests starts is known as amylase. Carbohydrate enzymes are also known for the breakdown of starts into sugar.
How can you tell how quickly the saliva digests the starch?
Starch doesn't digest saliva. The enzyme in saliva digests starch.
Enzyme that digests starch will not act upon the sugar sucrose this fact is an indication that enzymes are?
Specific
What enzyme digests starch into disaccharides and trisaccharides?
The enzyme that breaks down starch is called amylase
Why digestion of starch starts in the mouth?
It does not digest starch faster. The saliva produced before the meal will have a longer time to prepare.
What enzyme digests amylase?
Amylase helps the body digesting starch. Different types of amylase (alpha, beta...) can split different types of starch into sugar units.
What kind of enzyme breaks down carbohydrates?
Starch is the polysaccharide which is broken down into glucose by the body in a series of stages. Amylase digests starch into maltose (a disaccharide). Maltase is the enzyme which breaks maltose into glucose.
What disaccharide does the digestive enzyme amylase break down starch to?
Amylase helps the break down of starch into sugars (disaccharides). Amylase itself is not broken down. It is an enzyme and it doesn't enter into the reaction in any way. The disaccharide that is formed is sucrose, maltose or lactose.
What is in saliva that moistens food?
it contains enzyme amylase which digests starch,and a lubricant which makes food slippery and easy to swallow
