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Salivary digestive enzyme

What do you mean by the salivary digestive enzyme? Which kind of food it can digest and into what kind of the smaller molecules it transforms the food?

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Salivary hydrolase also known as salivary amylase or ptyalin. Ptyalin digests the carbohydrates breaking down glycogen and starch, glucose polymers, in dextrin and maltose (a glucose disaccharide).

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