what is a starch? what does the body convert starches to for use as energy?

Answer 1

Starch is a complex sugar. Enzymes in your mouth, and digestive tract, break it down into simple sugar. Your body uses the sugar (glucose) as energy.

Answer 2

starch (carbs) is kind of like a sugars just stuck together to make one long sugar. It doesn't taste sweet, because it doesn't influence our tastebuds that way when it is in a long chain.

Maybe you did this experiment in school as a kid.
Take a cracker and chew it in your mouth for a long
time. An enzyme in your saliva will cut off portions of the
starch into small sugars that your toungue can taste. Eventually
the goup will taste a little sweet to you.

The starch is the plant's way of storing sugar to be used later
for energy.

Our bods do this too..it is called glycogen, and is a medium term energy store..to my best recollection...been a while.
Fat is a more long term energy store for us. Anyway, our
bodies can use the glycogen to make glucose (sugar) which can
then power our muscles and nervous systems.

Answer 3

Glycogen is a starch. All the food we eat gets stored as glycogen.