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Can you literally crack a carb into a sugar? I don't think so. Your pepsin can chemically separate it though.
by srtjstjsj 6y ago
Can you literally crack a carb into a sugar? I don't think so. Your pepsin can chemically separate it though.
- mmm_grayons 6y agoI don't believe that's possible either, but processing can make a lot more surface area available on which enzymes can then act.
- nimish 6y agoAbsolutely not sure but isn't starch just a long chain of sugars that we can break apart? Might not get it down to a monomer but certainly breaks it apart for the enzymes to have more ends to attack.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoI worked on a process to reduce a vatful of long-chain polysaccharides to dextrose. The resulting dried powder was shipped as 'coffee creamer'. But not sure how efficient the process would be on starch - we started with much shorter chains (sucrose etc but some starch).