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The pasta is made up of monomers, large molecules made up of smaller molecules, which then in turn creates by linking together a polymer. This is what is known as ‘opposites attract’. When eating the pasta your body is already in the process of digestion: the breaking down of food. In order for your body to use the nutrients provided by the food, which is starch turned into glucose, a process called hydrolysis has to take place.

The water, already present in your body, will help this process along. Water molecules will be added to the polymer in order to breakdown the chain. When this happens, the polymer returns back to monomers, but in this case the starch will be turned into glucose. This is so because the positively charged ends of the polymer will repel the positively charged ends of the hydrogen, thus breaking the chain.