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If your mouth produces amylase and your stomach is highly acidic what happens to the amylase when you swallow?
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∙ 13y ago
Amylase is an enzyme, which is a type of protein. Protein denatures when temperature or pH (acidity) is changed. for example, amylase will no longer digest starch if you put it in a boiling water bath for 5 minutes. in the stomach, hydrochloric acid is produced by the stomach lining to digest food. this acid will denature the amylase when the swallowed food mixed with amylase from the mouth enters the stomach.
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∙ 11y agoIt is destroyed by the stomach acid and then digested with the food that was swallowed with it, and recycled to make new proteins, maybe even more amylase.
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