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What are the different types of saliva?
There are three main types of saliva: serous saliva, mucous saliva, and mixed saliva. Serous saliva is watery and contains enzymes that help break down food. Mucous saliva is thicker and helps lubricate food for easier swallowing. Mixed saliva is a combination of both serous and mucous saliva, which aids in digestion and protects the mouth.
How does your saliva break down food?
it has special enzymes that break down food suckas
What is the role of teeth?
to break down food mixed with saliva for good digestion.
What helps saliva break down food?
Teeth
What mechanisms break down food?
first it's the teeth and saliva. after you swallow the food it is the stomach acids that break down the food.
Which 2 organs help to break down food mechanically?
The mouth and the stomach help to break down food mechanically. In the mouth, food is chewed and mixed with saliva to form a bolus. In the stomach, muscles contract to churn and mix the food with gastric juices to form chyme.
Which food does saliva break down?
Saliva helps break down carbohydrates in food by producing enzymes like amylase. This enzyme starts the digestion process by breaking down starches in the food into simpler sugars for easier absorption in the digestive system.
What moistens the food in your mouth and begins to break it down?
your saliva
What are the three protective mechanisms of saliva?
*saliva do. it helps break down your food while you chew
What moistens food and begins to break down starch foods?
saliva moistens your food and it begins to break down starchy foods.
The digestion process starts in the?
Mouth. Mastication and saliva begins the food break down process
What controls release of energy from food?
When you eat, saliva (spit) has enzymes (proteins that increase the rate of chemical reactions) that start breaking down your food into smaller compounds! After the food has mixed with your saliva in your mouth, it goes down your esophagus, and it continues to break down even more- eventually it reaches your stomach, and its acids, again, break it down. After the stomach, it travels through the large and small intestine, where the food's nutrients are absorbed. After your body has gotten what it can out of your food, the waste exits the body!
