What is the process called by which food is broken down to its subunit structures with the addition of water?

Question

What is the process called by which food is broken down to its subunit structures with the addition of water?

Answer 1

It is called digestion.

It also means hydrolysis of food because every time a bond between the units is broken a molecule of water is also broken into H and OH.Each component of water is then added to the the two separated units.

Answer 2

Hydrolysis: is a catabolic process by which the bond between monomers are broken by the enzyme and the addition of water.



sucrose + water + enzyme = glucose + fructose + enzyme.

Answer 3

Hydrolysis which is the basis of enzymic breakdown of food in digestion.

Peptide bonds in protein; glycosidic bonds in carbohydrates and glyceride bonds in lipids are all broken by hydrolysis.

Answer 4

Hydrolysis

Answer 5

The chemical reaction you are referring to is probably hydrolysis.