Today the children took part in a lab experiment on how the digestive enzymes chemically digest starches in the mouth. The boys and girls each chewed a saltine cracker and then held it in their mouth for 5 minutes. They took note of how the taste changed over the 5 minutes. We discovered that the taste of the cracker became sweeter the longer it was in the mouth. This is due to the fact that amylase, the digestive enzyme found in saliva, chemically digests the starches in the cracker, breaking them down into simple sugars. Here are some photos of the children at work.
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