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Where is food mixed with gastric juice?
Food mixes with gastric juice in the stomach, the only place gastric juice should ever be in the body unless there is gastric reflux or perforation of the stomach.
What is a thick fluid that helps soften and lubricate food in stumich?
Mucus
What are the function of the pepsinogen in gastric juice?
Gastric juice, as known is an acidic juice present in the stomach. Pepsinogen in gastric juice conveys it to convert the pieces of food into a thick paste which then continues on. ^_^
When they reach the stomach mashed up food particles mixed up with?
Gastric juice
Is chyme released by the stomach into the intestines?
chyme is the mixture of gastric juice and the food intake. gastric juice is released by the hormone gastrin into the stomach.
In this muscle pouch food is mixed with gastric juice?
stomach
What muscular pouch is food mixed with gastric juice?
stomach
What are the two ways by which the hydrochloric acid in gastric juice contribute to the digestion of food in the stomach?
describe two ways on how the hydrolic acid in the gastric juice contribute in the chemicaldigestion of food in the stomach
What causes the release of gastric juice during the gastric phase?
Entry of food into the stomach and distension of the stomach
The mixture of food and gastric juice that enters the duodenum is called?
Its chyme.
Why is gastric juice acidic?
Yes it is. The proper name for it is Gastric Acid.
What is the function of pepsin in the stomach?
The gastric juice needs to be acid so that it can break down the food to go to the intestine. The muscles of the stomach wall contract vigorously so that the food is mixed with the gastric juice. Pepsinogen is made by the presence of gastric juice. This digests protein. Seeing, smelling, tasting or thinking about food starts the production of gastric juice.
