Which food do you think will take a longer time to get digested - sugar or beans (beans contain lot of proteins) &why?
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beans would take a longer time because sugar is already in a simplified form and can be easily converted to glucose whereas beans contain proteins and therefore takes a longer time to digest.
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Beans take longer time to digest as compared sugar.
Sugar is easily converted to glucose and absorbed by the body. On the other hand, beans are rich proteins. Proteins are the food components that take the most time to get digested.
This s because, proteins are made up of chains of amino acids that are folded and compacted together to form a complex structure. During digestion, the amino acid chains of proteins have to be broken down to single amino acids before it can be digested. Hence, beans take longer time to be digested.
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