Explain how the carbohydrates are digested in our body

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Digestion of carbohydrate: When we eat something, the food is mixed with saliva inside the mouth cavity. Saliva contains enzyme amylase which partially digests carbohydrate and converts into maltose. Then the food is swallowed down. Carbohydrate digestion does not take place in stomach as enzymes become inactive in presence of HCl. Again when the food pulp enters inside intestine, the intestinal juice and pancreatic juice contain amylase that again digests carbohydrate. Here, maltose gets converted into simplest form glucose.

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