Toasted bread is easier to digest

Toasted bread is easier to digest because the heat of toasting converts the starch of bread into dextrin, and dextrin is a disaccharide product intermediate between starch and monosaccharide dextrose.

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In digestion, starch breaks down into the disaccharide dextrine and the monosaccharide( simple sugars -with one unit) dextrose.

So in some conditions wherein you need to take care of your digestive system by eating light like diarrhoea this is best.

For toasting bread, use if possible an electric toaster in preference to one that works on gas.

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