In a healthy person, after a carbohydrate-rich meal, the production of insulin will increase, causing the uptake of Glucose from the blood into liver cells.
Explanation:
A carbohydrate rich food undergoes digestion to add glucose into the blood. Glucose is the raw material for cellular respiration and is required to produce energy via glycolysis and Kreb's cycle.
However the glucose molecule can only be used if it is taken up into the cell.
The uptake of glucose by the cell is triggered by an hormone called insulin.
This hormone signals the cell to take up glucose from the blood into the cell whenever free glucose is present in the blood.
A lack of insulin will cause diabetes.
