Question
How are polysaccharides and disaccharides digested?
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Answer
Digestion of carbohydrates takes place in the mouth and the small intestine. The enzymes carbohydrases act on carbohydrates. As the food enters the mouth, it gets mixed with saliva and breaks down starch into maltose, isomaltose and limit dextrins. The digestion of carbohydrates does not take place in the stomach. In the small intestine, the food gets mixed with pancreatic juice and intestinal juice. Pancreatic juice contains pancreatic amylase which digests polysaccharides into disaccharides.$\text{polysaccharides}\xrightarrow[]{\text{Anylase}}\text{Disaccharides} $
Intestinal juice also contains a variety of enzymes which digest the disaccharides into glucose, fructose and galactose.
Intestinal juice also contains a variety of enzymes which digest the disaccharides into glucose, fructose and galactose.
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