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Carbohydrates are typically broken down into?

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enzymes in your small intestine have to break it down further into smaller glucose molecules
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Answer:

Simple sugars.

Step-by-step explanation:

Carbohydrate is the important bio molecule of the living organism and made of the element carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Carbohydrates is made of the polymers of the sugars.

Specific enzymes are required for the breakdown of carbohydrates into simple sugars. The sugars of the carbohydrates are glucose, lactose and mannose. The carbohydrates when treated with the enzymes broken down into their simple monomers.

Thus, the answer is simple sugars.

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