When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...

This experiment works because it shows how salivary amylase – a type of enzyme that exists in our saliva – breaks down the starch in the bread into a sweet-tasting sugar. While this experiment ...

Salivary amylase’s job is to break the ... reducing their ability to cleave as many starch molecules in the given timeframe. Enzymes work and they do have an impact. But if you are cooking ...