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Q.When you chew plain bread, chapati or bhaakari for long time, it tastes sweet. What could be the resason ?

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Bread, chapati and bhaakari are starch. The enzyme amylase in saliva starts hydrolysing starch's α-1,4 chains while you chew; prolonged chewing produces enough maltose and glucose for their sweetness to be tasted. (The question's printed "resas …

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