Amylase is an enzyme in our saliva that helps us break down foods into sugar, amylase is a natural catalyst which speeds up a reaction. This enzyme interested us so we decided to test the rate of the breakdown of starch with amylase. This breakdown will be represented with a substance called iodine solution. Iodine solution is an indicator of starch, if there is any starch present the iodine solution will turn blue. Once the amylase breaks down the starch in a food the iodine solution would turn clear. We decided to use a potato, a very starchy food, to represent the breakdown. We figured out different ways to increase the rate of the breakdown of amylase and a potato and then compare the rates of those breakdowns to the initial rate of breakdown
