The sites and solubilities of oral metabolic enzymes of polysaccharides were studied by a technique that separates glucose and fructose polymers into alkali-soluble and alkali-insoluble fractions. The alkali-insoluble glucose polymers are greater in quantity than the alkali-soluble polymers.
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