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To: tejek who wrote (325325)	2/9/2007 8:26:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573954

"When you say cellulose......you mean the substance in almost any kind of plant material, right?" Yep. When you start sticking sugar molecules together, first you get starches. Which is why if you chew up and hold some cracker in your mouth, it starts to taste sweet after a while. The enzymes in your saliva are breaking the starches down into sugars. Stick even more sugar molecules together and you get cellulose. However, it isn't quite as easy to break down cellulose into its component sugars.