When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to ... But, Miss, why does everything we (eat) need to be broken down?

Humans today have several versions of a gene which gives saliva the ability to break down starch thanks to the enzyme amylase, and this allows us to get energy from carbohydrate-rich food.

According to the findings, Amylase, is an enzyme that gives bread its taste, as well as breaking down starch into glucose. During the study, the team of scientists used long-read sequencing and ...

“The authors finding that an increased copy number of the amylase gene, which results in a greater ability to break down ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to ... But, Miss, why does everything we (eat) need to be broken down?