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The hydrochloric acid in your stomach does NOT digest food. It simply provides the ideal conditions for enzymes to thrive. It's these enzymes that are responsible for digesting. The other purpose for the acid is to sterilise the food - microbes on the food are destroyed by the low pH of the HCl.
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What if all the acid in the stomach was neutralized?
Food can not be digested by stomach if acid is not there the result is vomiting and weakness and finally.....
Does gum stay in your stomach forever?
No, it gets digested in the stomach acid, like all food.
When you die how long does the food stay in the stomach?
When you die, the food in your stomach continues to break down because of the stomach acid that is inside the stomach at the time of death. Once the acid has neutralized, the food will no longer be digested. This takes about 24 hours.
Where most food are digested?
Most food is digested in the stomach.
Where is most of your food digested?
Most of the food is digested in your stomach, where the stomach muscles contract to squeeze the food into a thick, runny liquid.
How does food get digested in the stomach?
well the liver squirts an enyme called amalaz into the stomach and then it get churned around by the hydrochloride acid then it is parcely dissolved and sent into the mall intestine
Organ were digested food is absorbed?
Food is broken down or digested in the stomach but the nutrients are not absorbed in the stomach. Nutrients from digested food are primarily absorbed in the small intestine.
Where food is store before it is digested?
Food is stored before it is digested in your stomach.
In biology Where food is digested the food?
The Stomach
Why isn't your stomach digested by hydrochloric acid?
because mucus protects your stomach from it
What is chemically digested in the stomach?
food!!
Where must food is digested?
stomach
