Sentences with phrase «glucose units»

Instead of being only a string of glucose units, bacterial cellulose also had an appendage containing nitrogen and phosphorus.

Food chemist Steve Jobling at Unilever Research in Sharnbrook, United Kingdom, and colleagues at the National Starch and Chemical Co. in Bridgewater, New Jersey, blocked starch synthases, enzymes that stitch glucose units into long chains.

After your gastrointestinal tract digests starch to single glucose units, the resulting sugars serve the same purpose as your other dietary sugars.

In technical terms, maltodextrin is a polymer composed of D - Glucose units.

Many small molecules have been used as plasticisers that hydrogen bond with the glucose units in starch to prevent recrystallisation, however they are prone to migration and leeching, again degrading over time.

The glucose units are then absorbed into your bloodstream, where they are also known as blood sugar.