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Enzyme is one of the body chemicals that break down food. It is ready in your saliva before you eat. Bile, or stomach acid also breaks down food during digestion.
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When your body breaks down food into nutrients what type of digestion takes place?
When your body breaks down food into nutrients, chemical digestion is taking place. In contrast, physical digestion breaks down food mechanically into smaller particles.
A chemical that breaks down food in the body into smaller bits is called what?
A digestive enzyme
Why does food changes when it is in your body?
Because the body breaks down the food we eat by a chemical process called "digestion." It starts in our mouth.
What breaks down food in your body?
Your stomach
A chemical which breaks down food in the body into smaller bits is called a what?
It is called enzyme.
The process in which your body breaks down food into small nutrient molecules is called?
Mechanical digestion. The actual grinding and physical breaking down of food. Chemical digestion breaks down food using chemicals/enyzyms and chemical reactions.
Is enzyme a food additive?
No, an enzyme is a chemical that is in your body and breaks down food in your body. For example starch is broken down by the enzyme Lipase. Hope this helps. X
Type of digestion that breaks down food by chemical reactions?
Chemical digestion.
What type of energy does food contain before you eat it and your body breaks it down?
The food has chemical in it,that chemical goes in your mouth,then it becomes Mechanical energy/digestion. If your talking just the food itself,its chemical energy/digestion.
What is the chemical in body that breaks food into smaller buts?
Saliva
What happens to the food when it is in the body?
it breaks down
Why does your body break down the food?
Your body breaks down food so that it can get the nutrients into usable form.
