People with more copies produce more salivary amylase and break down starchy foods more efficiently. This genetic variation evolved as humans shifted to agricultural diets with higher starch ...

All this suggests that having more AMY1 copies is beneficial for mammals that consume a lot of starch, but oddly, scientists still haven’t determined exactly how multiple copies of a salivary amylase ...

However, the exact mechanism by which salivary amylase interacts with starch to change the oral microbiome and increase the risk of disease has not been clear. "That's what we wanted to know in ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...

METHODS for estimation of amylase are legion ... in the viscosity of the fluids during the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; (2) measurement of the increase in reducing sugars; (3) observation ...

When you chew carbohydrate-rich foods, carbohydrase enzymes, such as amylase in your saliva, break down starch into sugar to give us the energy we need. Then protease enzymes in your stomach break ...