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Why can’t humans digest all carbohydrates?

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Humans are unable to digest cellulose because the appropriate enzymes to breakdown the beta acetal linkages are lacking.

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Cellulose for example is a polysaccharide made of glucose units joined by beta 1-4 glycosidic bonds and humans do not possess enzymes which will digest such bonds.
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