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Amylase is used to digest starch. Your body makes it in two locations the saliva glands and pancreas.
Theere is an enzyme in your saliva called as amylase. It starts the digestion of starch in your digestive system.
salivary glands in mouth are secreting the amylase enzyme that is starch splitting
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What enzyme helps you digest starch?
Amylase digests starch
Amylase is an enzyme that is only able to digest what?
Starch
Saliva and pancreatic juice contains what enzyme to digest starch?
Amalyse
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.
How can you tell how quickly the saliva digests the starch?
Starch doesn't digest saliva. The enzyme in saliva digests starch.
How are Enzyme's used in the food industry?
proteases are used to pre-digest the protein in some baby foods. carbohydrases are used to convert starch into sugar syrup
What does the enzyme carbohydrase in the small intestine do?
1)enzyme is a chemical substance that digest starch and reducing sugar 2)Also, the carbohydrase enzymes break down the big starch particles...the starch particles are to big to digest - it is like having peas through a sieve! Rate This Answer
What would happen if enzyme amylase is absent in saliavary gland secretions?
Starch and glycogen would not be able to be digested and sugar would not be able to be formed.
Which glands help digest starch?
Glands aren't responsible directly for the breaking down of starch. The enzyme that is responsible for the digestion of starch is amylase. This enzyme is produced by the salivary glands in our mouth - salivary amylase. It's also made by the pancreas - pancreatic amylase.
What is the enzyme produced in mouth?
Salivary amylase is produced in the mouth so that it can digest carbohydrate
Why does starch take longer to digest than sugar?
The reason for this is that the acid is more rapid in it's chemical reactions, this than enables the starch to hydrolise starch more effectivly that the enzyme. As you may have learned the enzyme is a catalyst and does speed up chemical reactions but not like an acid does.
Digestion of food begins where?
Digestion of food begins in your mouth. You have amylase enzyme, also called as ptylin present in your saliva to digest the starch.
