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Explain how does the major nutrient in chapati eaten by you in your food get digested and finally absorbed by the

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Answered by TheRose
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The major nutrient in chapati are carbhydrates. The digestion of carbohydrates is as follows:

Digestion of carbohydrate: Digestion of carbohydrates occurs mainly in mouth and small intestine.  When we eat food, it gets mixed with saliva inside the mouth cavity. Saliva  contains enzyme amylase which partially digests carbohydrate and converts into maltose. Then the food is swallowed down. 

Carbohydrate digestion does not take place in stomach as enzymes become inactive in presence of HCl. Again when the food pulp enters inside intestine, the intestinal juice and pancreatic juice contain amylase that again digests carbohydrate. Here, maltose gets converted into simplest form glucose. 



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Answered by Shreya980429
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The major nutrient in chapati are carbhydrates. The digestion of carbohydrates is as follows:

Digestion of carbohydrate: Digestion of carbohydrates occurs mainly in mouth and small intestine.  When we eat food, it gets mixed with saliva inside the mouth cavity. Saliva  contains enzyme amylase which partially digests carbohydrate and converts into maltose. Then the food is swallowed down. 

Carbohydrate digestion does not take place in stomach as enzymes become inactive in presence of HCl. Again when the food pulp enters inside intestine, the intestinal juice and pancreatic juice contain amylase that again digests carbohydrate. Here, maltose gets converted into simplest form glucose.villi present in the walls of small intestine absorbs the nutrients and unabsorbed nutrients are digested in the large intestine by taking all the water present in it.

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