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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2004/08

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: Mineralization within cane tubules....
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 12:59:33 -0400


On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 PhilFrei@-----.com wrote:

> It seems we have some controversy as to whether saliva digests reeds or not.

There is no controversy, actually. Human saliva has no enzymes to dissolve
what is commonly called cellulose. Saliva contains an enzyme to convert
starches to sugar (amylase), not cellulose.

There are some sugars in the cane that do get dissolved.

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