why rice and bread taste sweet when chewing?
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Amylase is a digestive enzyme that acts on starch in food, breaking it down into smaller carbohydrate molecules. It is produced at two sites. First, salivary glands in the mouth make salivary amylase, which begin the digestive process by breaking down starch when the food is chewed. The starch is converted to maltose, a smaller carbohydrate. When starchy foods like rice or potatoes begin to break down in the mouth, a slightly sweet taste is detected, as maltose is released. So, if we chew a piece of bread or rice (made of polysaccharides) long enough, it will begin to taste sweet because amylase is breaking down starches to dissaccharides such as maltose.
Answer: rice and bread taste sweet when chewing because they are in the form of starch and while chewing the saliva is released where it contains salivary amylase it helps to convert starch into simple sugars due to which the bread and rice taste sweet
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