This simulation explores the breaking down of starch into sugar that begins in your mouth (when you eat something) and is completed in the small intestine.
In the simulation, sugars (monosaccharides) are represented by single dark red hexagons .
Starches are represented by chains of three or more gray connected hexagons.
Enzymes are represented by yellow Pac-Man-like spheres. When enzymes encounter starch molecules and break them down into sugars, they temporarily turn red in color than back to yellow.