Question

if you chew a piece of bread for a long time it tastes sweet .why?

Answer 1

The salivary amylase will gradually digest the starch in the bread and turn it into smaller sugar (glucose) molecules and it tastes sweet when chewed for long time. Because whenwe chew a piece of bread for a long time it mix with saliva has saliva has some sweet taste. So we feel taste sweet.

Answer 2

Answer:

• piece of bread is generally composed of starch molecules

• aftet chewing it for a long tym tge enzymes in tge mouth startattack the starch molecule which is further converted into glucose

• it is glucose which provied tge braed a sweet taste

• thus tge action og enzymes tge starch chain are convertedinto glucose

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