Maltose

polysaccharide (3 or more monossacharides). Examples of a monosaccharide is glucose, fructose, and galactose. Meanwhile, disaccharides are joined by a glycosidic linkage formed by a dehydration reaction. Examples of disaccharides are sucrose, lactose, and maltose. Lastly, a polysaccharide is a polymer of 3 or more sugars formed by a deydration reaction. Examples of polysaccharides are starch and glycogen. In this experiment, central sugars can be found by utilizing Benedict's test. Proteins…

1. Through which organs, and in what order does the bolus of food travel? • The bolus of food first travels to the oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and then to the large intestine. 2. How long does the food remain in each segment of the digestive tract and what physiological processing takes place during this time? • Chemical and mechanical digestion begins in the oral cavity. Temperature, taste, texture are sensed, and the saliva helps the chemical digestion because…

Why Quit Sugar? In this chapter, there are a couple of questions that we would like to address as fol- lows: Is Sugar Really Bad for the Health? What is sugar detox? These questions will help up realize how far we have been torturing our bodies and that it is time for changes to take place through sugar detox and other healthy diets. Is Sugar Really Bad for your Health? Recent headlines read “Sugar Can Kill You!” It has been up on many news maga- zines, blogs and online news since the…

Medicinal Plants and their Importance According to Ketchen (2017), edicinal plants can give a life changing options for people who cannot afford expensive medications and surgeries for their ailment. Most herbal medicine focus on prevention of a certain ailment and it involves of using plants and extracts of it to give an effective and safe treatments for illnesses. People doesn’t use herbal medicines because it is cheap, some people use it because it helped to prevent in some particular…

complex carbohydrate) play a major role in increasing or lowering blood glucose level. First, the simple carbohydrate which includes monosaccharides and disaccharides. Due to their simple structure, simple carbohydrates for example galactose and maltose, are easily broken down. This can cause a major health problem to the body as blood sugar level and the secretion of insulin from pancreas might increase faster than normal. The other type of carbohydrates is the complex carbohydrates. This form…

chosen for the experiment was an amylase, specifically beta-amylase. Amylase protein can be typically found in plants and animals. The role of this protein is to hydrolyze organic materials, such as starch and dextrin, in order to form glucose, maltose, and limit dextrin. One distinction between beta amylase and alpha amylase is that beta amylase is not found in animal. It is found primarily in plants, bacteria, and fungi. In these types of organisms, beta amylase plays a huge role in its…

Salivary enzyme amylase initiates the breakdown of starches into maltose (Sadava, D et al., 2008). As food travels through the esophagus down to the stomach, no significant digestion of carbohydrates takes place. The acidic environment in our stomach impedes the action of the amylase enzyme. The next step of carbohydrate…

Carbohydrates are the sugars, starches and fibers found in fruits, grains, vegetables and milk products. Carbohydrates — one of the basic foods groups — is important to a healthy life. - Carbohydrates, together with fats and proteins, provide the necessary energy needs for humans, and constitute, therefore, an integral part of a normal diet. Diet affects the integrity of teeth; quantity, pH and composition of saliva; plaque pH. Sugars and other fermentable carbohydrates after being hydrolyzed…

Hypothesis: Aerobic Respiration: If a phosphate buffer, dichlorophenol-indophenol and succinate are added to a mitochondrial extract then the succinate molecules will bind to an enzyme complex (succinate dehydrogenase). Because the enzyme and FAD are a part of the same complex, initiating succinate oxidation, this reaction reduces FAD to FADH2. Thus the oxidation of succinate to furmarate. Anaerobic Respiration: If a solution of yeast and glucose is combined and placed in different incubation…

Structure of Glucose Introduction to Glucose: Glucose, a rich source of energy for living organisms, is produced by the photosynthesis of water and carbon dioxide. Living organisms take in food and obtain energy by the chemical and mechanical breakdown of glucose. Glucose is a simplest carbohydrate, belongs to the monosaccharide category of sugars. More complex carbohydrates usually arise from the linked glucose units (Spencer et. al, 2010). Chemical composition of glucose: Being the simplest…