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on chewing a piece of bread slowly,it starts imparting sweets taste after sometime.why?
 The salivary amylase secreted by the salivary glands break complex food particles into maltose which is a sugar.  This is starch in the bread. Bread tastes sweet on chewing because the enzymes in saliva begin converting the starch in bread to sugar.


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