The journey of the Carbohydrates

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Frances Duffy                                                                         Homework        Tea Time.

The Start:-

We’ve just been called in for our nutritious balanced tea. Packed to the brim with protein, vitamins, carbohydrates, minerals, and even fat! My mum reckons we all need to eat healthy, balanced meals all the time because we’re still growing, and she doesn’t want us to become malnourished. She makes sure we have protein for growing and repairing, vitamins for our skin and teeth, carbohydrates for energy, minerals like calcium to avoid rickets and fat to balance it out perfectly by giving us tons of energy and insulating our healthy bodies. My brother and I sit down to eat, and look with despair at the correctly proportioned food in front of us. I instantly push away the broccoli and the cauliflower. I pick a piece of potato out on my fork, and I know it’s there because it’s loaded with carbohydrates. I know I should eat my greens, because it is important that we digest our food so that we can obtain nutrients and energy from it.

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The journey of the Carbohydrates:-

I enter the Mouth, and The Teeth instantly greet us. We were warned about these. They’re there to crush us up, and give us a large surface area to prepare us for The Enzymes. And sure enough, right on time is Amylase, all ready to digest us. I suppose I should be honoured, I mean poor Amylase has travelled all the way from the Salivary Gland, just to digest us. Although, to be fair, Amylase did get a lift with the Saliva, who have come to lubricate us for The Great Swallowing. So ...

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