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In the digestive system, digestion starts in your mouth. Your teeth grind your food into small pieces. Your digestive juices can only work on the outside of food. by grinding food into small pieces, it gives your food a whole lot more area for your digestive juices to work on. Also the saliva in your mouth is a digestive juice. It starts the process of digesting carbohydrates.
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∙ 10y agoThe digestion of food starts in the mouth. Saliva (salivary amylase) secreted in the mouth converts starch to maltose. Another enzyme called lingual lipase hydrolyzes triglycerides to free fatty acids and partial glycerides.
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Where in the digestive system physically crush food?
The teeth in mouth in the digestive system are where food is crushed physically.
What is broken down in the mouth in the digestive system?
Food
What organ system chews swallows and moves food through the digestive system?
That is the organ system: digestive system.
Where does the digestive system start?
digestion starts in the mouth as soon as food enters it. then the food is broken down and taken to the esophagus where it is then taken to the stomach.
What is Monogastric System?
A mono-gastric digestive system work as soon as the food enters the mouth. Saliva moistens the food and begins the digestive process.
What is the main function of the throat in the digestive system?
The main function of the throat in the digestive system is to transport food from the mouth to the stomach.
Which part of the digestive system serves as the entry point of the food?
mouth
How is the circulatory system important to the digestive system?
the digestive system begins in the mouth ,so if the blood is not flowing how can the food digest if there is no ooxygen in the blood
How a fish get food?
It sucks it into its mouth and the piece of food then proceeds through the Digestive system of the fish.
The main job of the mouth is what?
the definition of mouth is opening through which food enters the digestive system of an organism
What system the esopghagus in?
Digestive. It's the tube that takes your food from your mouth to your stomach.
What is the system that breaks down and absorbs food?
The first task of the digestive system is to break down food into a fine pulp (mechanical digestion). When the food is physically broken down, digestive chemicals break the food down into small molecules (chemical digestion). The mouth is the organ in which the process of digestion begins.(Google)
