Sentences with phrase «digest plant cell walls»

Dogs also lack the enzyme cellulose, which is needed to digest plant cell walls and access their nutrients.

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Cows have the ability to digest cellulose — the carbohydrate that strengthens the cell walls of plants — because of «fibrolytic ruminal bacteria,» which represent just a few of the hundreds of species of microbes in the digestive systems of ruminants.

Most raw starch in plants resists digestion because the plant cell walls and / or hulls slows down the enzymes digesting the starch.

The cell walls in younger plants tend to be more pliable than those in older plants and are therefore easier to digest.

Blending greens also has another benefit because the blending process breaks down the cell walls of the plant, which makes the nutrition contained in the greens easy to digest and absorb.

This two - pronged approach to define edible, nondigestible carbohydrates recognizes the diversity of carbohydrates in the human food supply that are not digested: plant cell wall and storage carbohydrates that predomi - nate in foods, carbohydrates contributed by animal foods, and isolated and low molecular weight carbohydrates that occur naturally or have been synthesized or otherwise manufactured.