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    • Pile of cooked white rice on blue background.
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 9 February 2022 Size: 1000 KB Referencing Hub media

    Cooked rice is a starch-rich food and can be used to investigate the action of salivary amylase on starch.

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      ACTIVITY

      Salivary amylase and starch

      In this activity, students investigate the action of salivary amylase on starch present in cooked rice. Simple tests for starch and its digestion product, maltose, are applied. By the end of this ...

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