What is the process of digestion and absorption of carbohydrates?
What is the process of digestion and absorption of carbohydrates?
1) chewing with saliva uses amylase to help break down.
2) moves to stomach but amylase stops working here.
3) moves to small intestine where pancreatic amylase
continues breaking down long saccharide chains from complex carbohydrates into disaccharides, or dual-molecule sugars such as sucrose. Additional enzymes -- lactase, maltase and sucrase -- then break disaccharides down into monosaccharides, or single molecule sugars such as glucose.
4) Then the monosaccharides are absorbed by the liver and stored as fuel to be used by the body
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