Question

What must happen to dietary starch (in, say, pasta) before cells can start accessing its energy content in glycolysis?In?

Answer 1

Answer:

The structures of starch and glycogen, the storage form of sugars in plants and animals, respectively. ... When more ATP is needed than can be generated from the food molecules taken in from the bloodstream, cells break down glycogen in a reaction that produces glucose 1-phosphate, which enters glycolysis.