Analysis:

Read the scenario given below. Answer questions after the scenario (40pts).

You were eating your breakfast this morning. In the matrix, is the list of food you ate during the
meal and the breakdown of organic compounds that compose each of the food you ate. Assuming
that the amount of molecule is given in the table per organic molecule, please answer the questions
that follows.

Food Organic molecule Amount in grams

(majority)
1 Sunny side up egg Proteins 5
2 Slices of Sandwich Carbohydrates 10
bread
1 Table banana Carbohydrates 15
1 Glass of milk • Fat • 5
• Protein • 10
• Carbohydrates • 5
3 Bacon strips • Fat • 5
• Protein • 10
a. How much carbohydrates were you able to take in with the meal you have eaten in the scenario?
Which of these carbohydrates from the different food source would most likely be digested more
easily? Explain why. (10 pts)

- In this case, the total carbs ingested are 30 grams, and the banana, which is high in easily
digestible carbohydrates, is the meal most likely to be quickly digested. Ripe bananas are
easier to digest than unripe bananas because these contain fewer resistant carbohydrates.
Bananas include a form of carbohydrate called resistant starch, which functions similarly
to dietary fiber.

b. Granting that in one gram of carbohydrates it is equivalent to 2 molecules(C6H12O6) of glucose

at the end of the digestion. How much ATP will be created with the total number of grams of
carbohydrates you have eaten in breakfast following the formula below. Please show your solution.
(10 pts)
C6H12O6 + 6O = 6CO2 + 6H2O + 36 ATP
Sugar (glucose) + Oxygen = Carbon dioxide + water+ ATP

Total of Carbohydrates = 30 Grams

1 gram of Carbohydrates = 2 molecules of glucose
30 grams of Carbohydrates = 30 x 2 molecules of glucose = 60
C6H12O6 = 36 ATP
60 x 36 = 2160 ATP
c. Following the diagram below on the summary of digestion of Carbohydrates, which kind of
carbohydrates from the kinds of food you ate would most likely be digested fast and will be
absorbed first into the bloodstream? Why do you say so? How about the slowest? Why do you
say so? (20 pts)

- According to the food sources chart, bread and bananas contain a lot of
polysaccharides, as well as maltose, sucrose, fructose, and glucose, making them easy to
digest and absorb into the circulation. Polysaccharides, maltose, and sucrose are all
digested in the stomach, as shown in the diagram below. Because polysaccharides are
dissolved, amylase enzymes can convert starch to glucose, and the quickest way to
absorb glucose in the bloodstream is by a sequence of breakdowns. Milk, on the other
hand, is the carbohydrate that takes the longest of all the foods to digest. Milk contains
proteins, which are complex molecules that take a long time to digest. In fact, they
produce energy at a much slower and longer rate.