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What mixes with the food when it is in the stomach?
Hydrochloric Acid with Pepsin this is the only acid that the body makes.
What is a muscular organ that mixes and stores food?
The stomach because it stores and mixes food. Stomach- pouch shaped organ that has gastric juice, and stores and mixes food.
What happens to pepsin strucutrally as it leaves the stomach?
Pepsin helps in digestion of proteins, hydrochloric acid and mucus. HCl helps in killing bacteria present in food. When food leaves stomach it is partially digested soupy liquid called as chyme.
What food does pepsin begin to breakdown?
Pepsin begins the digetion of Protein. Pepsin is found in the stomach.
What mixes with mashed up food particles when they reach the stomach?
Your saliva mixes up with food particles when they reach the stomach.
Where is Pepsin found?
Is it found in your stomach where it degrades your food.
What is the role of hydrochloric acid in the stomach?
There is an enzyme called pepsin in our stomach which helps in digestion of food. Hydrochloric acid helps to activate pepsin as well as kills the germs present in food.
What mixes food with acid?
Your stomach.
Churns food and begins protein digestion?
When pepsinogen is mixed with hydrochloric acid, it makes pepsin. Pepsin is the enzyme that begins the digestion of proteins in stomach.
Why pepsin is inactive in small intestine?
pepsin and all other digestive enzymes are neutralized by the small intestine
What happens after the food gets broken down by the pepsin in your stomach?
food passes into the intestines where nutrients are sorted out and then absorbed and waste continues to be pushed through the digestive system
What churns and mixes food?
The stomach the stomach the stomach's job is to churn and mixed and digest food until it's a liquid.
