While eating a container of yogurt, you have to leave, so you store the yogurt in the refrigerator. a day later you return and find the surface of the yogurt is no longer smooth but has broken into several liquified products. you correctly guess that enzymes from your saliva, via the spoon, have continued digesting the yogurt in your absence. what will happen over time?

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Autumn Harrison

17 December, 07:42

While eating a container of yogurt, you have to leave, so you store the yogurt in the refrigerator. a day later you return and find the surface of the yogurt is no longer smooth but has broken into several liquified products. you correctly guess that enzymes from your saliva, via the spoon, have continued digesting the yogurt in your absence. what will happen over time?

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Abram Kramer · Answer 1

The salivary enzymes will continue breaking down the macronutrients in the yogurt. This is due to the fact that they break down a molecule at a time without getting denatured. Some of the enzymes in the saliva include lingual lipases that digest fats and salivary amylase that breaks down carbohydrates.