digestion
No. Most of the breakdown of food is done by the small intestine.
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mechanical breakdown
Chewing begins mechanical breakdown of food through mastication
The mechanical breakdown of food starts with the saliva in your mouth.
Mechanical breakdown makes food smaller so it wasn't be so large for the chemical breakdown.
The espohagus doesn't breakdown food, it just carries it from the mouth to the stomach. Not by gravity, but by musclar energy.
Mastication, commonly known as chewing, is the term for the mechanical breakdown of food in the mouth.
The enzyme that speeds up the breakdown of proteins in food are called protease.
Mechanical breakdown helps chemical breakdown because when you chew, chemical breakdown is going on all at the same time. So, that is going to chemical because if you didn't have saliva (chemical breakdown) if would take real long to digest your food.
a mechanical breakdown is when you manualy breakdown something,without using any objects. for example chewing your food is a mechanical brekdown or ripping a paper. And when you are breaking it down it fells like you do not feel anything.
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