2006-12-08 17:57:47 · 13 answers · asked by chitele j 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Carbohydrates come in three forms - sugar, starches, and cellulose (plants).
Bread is a type of starch that is made up of glucose molecules and glucose is, again, a form of sugar.
If you chew on a piece of bread for a while, it will begin to taste sweet because the enzymes in saliva are already beginning to break down the starch into glucose.
2006-12-08 18:03:20 · answer #1 · answered by ♪ ♥ ♪ ♥ 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Chew Bread
2017-01-14 03:22:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your saliva is strong enough to digest bread.
The bread is digested into sugars in your mouth, therefore, it will taste sweet.
I know of people who put bread in their mouth at the start of an arm wrestling match. The reason they do this is because when the bread turns into sugar, the sugar will give the arm wrestler a little more power because that sugar in their mouth gets used for energy very quickly. Since the sugar from the bread is fully digested, it goes directly into the blood stream via membranes in the mouth. This process can help extend an arm wrestling match longer.
2006-12-08 18:08:37 · answer #3 · answered by tristan-adams 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a stable question. Bread is composed of starch, this is a complicated carbohydrate. It has very super molecules which your physique can not take up. An enzyme on your saliva referred to as ptyalin breaks the starch molecules down into sugars, that are plenty smaller, soluble molecules, that could bypass with the aid of the partitions of your digestive tract into your bloodstream.
2016-12-11 05:24:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The enzymes in saliva start to break down starches in the mouth .
I'm guessing but aside from the sugar content this might have some impact as well .
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2006-12-08 18:08:08 · answer #5 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bread is made up of complex carbohydrates, and saliva breaks complex carbs. down into single carbs. hence the sweet taste.
2006-12-08 18:07:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because bread has a bit of sugar in the mix
2006-12-08 17:59:40 · answer #7 · answered by JB 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The enzymes in your saliva break down some of the complex carbohydrates to simple carbohydrates (simple sugar) Have a nice holiday.
2006-12-08 18:06:56 · answer #8 · answered by firestarter 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Maybe the bread your eatting has sugar in it, or maybe it's like a sweet dough bread!!
2006-12-08 18:00:00 · answer #9 · answered by Vy-Vy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is starch present in the bread... and when amylase, an enzyme present in the mouth acts on the starch it turns it into glucose which tastes sweet
2006-12-08 18:03:45 · answer #10 · answered by kk kk kk 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋