Discuss the roles of the mouth and the stomach in the digestion of carbohydrate
What will be an ideal response?
The salivary enzyme amylase starts to work in the mouth, hydrolyzing the starch to shorter polysaccharides and to the disaccharide maltose. Because food is in the mouth for a relatively short time, very little carbohydrate digestion takes place there.
Carbohydrate digestion ceases in the stomach. The activity of salivary amylase diminishes as the stomach’s acid and protein-digesting enzymes inactivate the enzyme. The stomach’s digestive juices contain no enzymes to break down carbohydrates. Fibers are not digested, but because they linger in the stomach, they delay gastric emptying thereby creating satiety.
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