HUMAN NUTRITION

NUTRITION

CARBOHYDRATES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The process of digesting a polysaccharide into individual monosaccharides is called ____
A
Dehydration Synthesis
B
Hydrolysis
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Polysaccharides, such as starch, chitin, glycogen, and cellulose, can be broken down into monosaccharides. This occurs through the process of hydrolysis, which uses water to break the bonds between monosaccharides.

Detailed explanation-2: -Polysaccharide hydrolysis under hydrothermal conditions in the presence of carbon dioxide is an environmentally benign method to produce mono-and oligosaccharides because the process does not require the use of conventional acids and bases followed by neutralization and separation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hydrolysis (/haɪˈdrɒlɪsɪs/; from Ancient Greek hydro-‘water’, and lysis ‘to unbind’) is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds. The term is used broadly for substitution, elimination, and solvation reactions in which water is the nucleophile.

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