What does the stomach do in a digestive system?

Answer 1

produces amino acides that helps in digestive system

Answer 2

The main purpose of the stomach is to digest proteins. And, most of the time it does not do a complete job and it has to be finished digesting in the duodenum, the first part of the the small intestine. It also churns up the food using a muscular movement.

Answer 3

Mechanical breakdown (masseration) - It pretty much churns the food up and physically breaks it down.

Kills bacteria - The acid is mainly there for killing harmful bacteria but also creates a nice acidic environment (low pH) for the digestive enzyme pepsin to break down protein.

Storage Sack - Stores your food. If it were to all go down at once, digestion would not be that efficient.

Answer 4

produces amino acides that helps in digestive system

Answer 5

It holds pepsin an acid and hydrocloricacicd they both help digest food. Without hydrocloricacid pepsin takes a very long time to digest foods

Answer 6

The stomach contracts and expands to churn the food that comes to it.It carries these functions with the help of some acids.

Answer 7

It breaks down the food