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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.
How the stomach works in the digestive system?
The stomach mechanically/chemically breaks down food. It adds acid and mixes it into the food.
What are the regions that break down foodstuffs mechanically?
The mouth, specifically the teeth, breaks down food mechanically through the process of chewing. The stomach also contributes to mechanical breakdown through muscle contractions that help mix and churn food.
How does the stomach mechanically break down food?
The stomach mechanically breaks down food through a process called mechanical digestion, which involves the churning and mixing of food with gastric juices. This action helps to break down larger food particles into smaller pieces, making it easier for digestion and absorption in the intestines.
What organ mechanically breaks up food during mastication?
teeth
The group of organs that break down foods?
Your GI, or gastrointestinal, tract breaks down foods. The make-up of the food you ingest will determine how it's broken down. Your mouth mechanically (chewing) breaks down all food and chemically breaks down carbohydrates. Your stomach breaks down proteins and fats. Your small intestine breaks down everything else via pancreatic acids and enzymes. Majority of carbohydrates break down in the small intestine.
What breaks down food into what that cells can absorb What breaks down food?
1.) What breaks down food into what that cells can absorb what breaks down food ? The answer is B wich is Digestion . = Lexy.B
Is the liver chemical or mechanical?
Does the liver mechanically break down food or does it chemically do it? It's not a muscle so it doesn't break down food mechanically, but it does secrete chemicals that help to break food down, like bile, which is stored in the gall bladder and released to help break down fats and make them more soluble so that they can be absorbed by the body.
What does digestion break down fats into?
Fats and oils are broken down into solublpubstances andtgo
Acid breaks down food were?
Acid breaks down the food in the stomach. Pepsin is the enzyme that breaks down the proteins from the food, in the stomach. Highly acidic pH helps to break down the food.
What stores and breaks down food?
There is NO organelle that breaks down food, AND stores it. Vacuole = Stores water and food particles. Lysomes= Breaks down food particles.
What does the mouth do to aid in digestion?
It chew food in to small pieces and adds saliva for digestion. The process of digestion is to take large food particles and break them down into small food particles. Chewing mechanically reduces the size of the food particles. The saliva helps breaks down starch into sugar.
