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Digestion. Sucrose digestion does not begin until the sugar reaches the small intestine. Your body cannot absorb polysaccharides as is, so it must first break sucrose down into its component parts.ucrose, commonly known as table sugar, consists of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose.
But sucrose is not the only sugar that our bodies break down into different, more simple sugars. The sugar lactose can be broken down to create glucose and galactose (another sugar that is easily absorbed directly in the intestines because it is a monosaccharide). This reaction is shown in Equation 2, below.