Question

Carbohydrates are generally called sugar or saccharides due to their sweet tastes except polysaccharides ...:/ Why? except polysacchrides? I'm confused ..Some one explains me..

Answer 1

Are polysaccharides not sweet in tastes? and also...polysaccharides are composed of monosaccharides which are simple sugar...Than what does it mean by except polysaccharides? >.<

Answer 2

Yes, polysaccharides are not sweet.

And yes, they're made of a bunch of monosaccharides, all linked together.

I think the question means to ask us why polysaccharides aren't sweet.

Answer 3

It could also be asking why "polysaccharides" are called by that name, even though they are not sweet.

Why do we call them "poly"saccharides, to begin with?

Answer 4

They composed of monosaccharides right? Monosaccharides are simpler sugar...Then whyy polysaccharides are not sweets? :I
I'm totally confused :(

Answer 5

Yes they're made up of many monosaccharides, joined together. "Many." That's why they're called "polysaccharides."

But they don't taste sweet.

That's because they're large molecules. Larger than monosaccharides and disaccharides.

Because they're so large, our taste buds can't detect their sweetness.

Answer 6

I couldn't get man :I We can't detect their sweetness because they're so large..??

Answer 7

Yes.

Answer 8

When we eat candy and ice cream, they taste sweet because we're picking up sucrose. Disaccharides, like sucrose, are smaller than polysaccharides, like starch.

There is a way to taste the sweetness in starchy foods, like potatoes.

Our saliva can take polysaccharides, and break them down into monosaccharides.

If we give our saliva enough time to break down these starchy foods in our mouths,
we can actually pick up some of that sweetness.