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<blockquote data-quote="milesrf" data-source="post: 1868959" data-attributes="member: 13629"><p>The old idea that the length of carbohydrate chains always made the longer chains slower to digest has been shown to be incorrect. The types of links between the simple sugars in the chains has much more effect on the speed of digestion. Each type of digestive enzyme for carbohydrates can usually break only one of these types of links, but is not restricted to doing it only at the ends of the chains. Therefore, most of the common types of starches digest about as fast as table sugar.</p><p></p><p>Cellulose is a type of carbohydrate most easily found in wood. Humans and multi-cell animals don't produce the type of enzyme needed to break its links. Some bacteria do produce the right enzyme, so some animals maintain colonies of these bacteria and are therefore able to digest cellulose with help from the bacteria. Some of the animals doing this are termites, rabbits, and cattle.</p><p></p><p>Lactose is the main milk carbohydrate. Babies of all races produce a suitable enzyme for breaking its link. People of mainly European ancestry usually continue to produce this enzyme as adults. People with ancestry mainly from other continents usually no longer produce this enzyme as adults, and therefore have health problems with high use of dairy products.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milesrf, post: 1868959, member: 13629"] The old idea that the length of carbohydrate chains always made the longer chains slower to digest has been shown to be incorrect. The types of links between the simple sugars in the chains has much more effect on the speed of digestion. Each type of digestive enzyme for carbohydrates can usually break only one of these types of links, but is not restricted to doing it only at the ends of the chains. Therefore, most of the common types of starches digest about as fast as table sugar. Cellulose is a type of carbohydrate most easily found in wood. Humans and multi-cell animals don't produce the type of enzyme needed to break its links. Some bacteria do produce the right enzyme, so some animals maintain colonies of these bacteria and are therefore able to digest cellulose with help from the bacteria. Some of the animals doing this are termites, rabbits, and cattle. Lactose is the main milk carbohydrate. Babies of all races produce a suitable enzyme for breaking its link. People of mainly European ancestry usually continue to produce this enzyme as adults. People with ancestry mainly from other continents usually no longer produce this enzyme as adults, and therefore have health problems with high use of dairy products. [/QUOTE]
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