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Why monosacharides are soluble in water and sweet in taste but starch is not when both belong to carbohydates?

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Why monosacharides are soluble in water and sweet in taste but starch is not when both belong to carbohydates?

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  1. I would say because starch is a polysaccharide made of glucose monosaccharides, joined by glycosidic bonds which require energy to be broken.


  2. Starch is a POLYsaccharide.

    Because the structure of starch is such that there are no free OH groups to form h-bonds with water, as is the case with glycogen or othe polysaccharides.
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