What are maltose used for
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Answer:
it is an enzyme which digests food enters in our body and a product
Explanation:
Maltose is a type of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates are one of the nutrients necessary for our body to properly function and are one of the main sources of energy for the body. They are typically composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Maltose is made by combining two glucose units together. Glucose has six carbons, six oxygens, and twelve hydrogens. Glucose typically forms a ring structure like this:
Structure of glucose
The carbon that is numbered one, or the alpha carbon, is then connected to another glucose molecule at carbon number four to look like this:
Structure of maltose
In this diagram, the carbons in the ring are represented by a point in the ring instead of writing 'C' for each carbon. When the two glucose molecules combine, an oxygen and two hydrogens are lost as water, so now maltose has twelve carbons, eleven oxygens, and twenty-two hydrogens. Since there are two units connected, maltose is referred to as a disaccharide: 'di' meaning two and saccharide is another name for a simple carbohydrate or sugar (such as glucose). So, it is a carbohydrate with two sugar units.
Functions of Maltose
Maltose is a sweet carbohydrate, but compared to other common sweet carbohydrates, such as sucrose (table sugar) and fructose, it is a lot less sweet. Due to its lack of sweetness, it isn't often added to products as a sweetener. Instead, it does come into use in the malting process of barley, in order to make beer. The starches turn into maltose during the malting process, which adds a sweetness to beer to counteract the bitterness.
More importantly is the role maltose plays in digestion. Most plant starches are made up of repeating glucose units attached one after another, called amylose.