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What digestive juice from the liver helps to adsorb fats in the bloodstream?
Bile is the digestive juice from your liver. Bile salts break down fat. Hope this helps :)
Which is the digestive juice that only acts on proteins?
lipase breaks down fat into glycerol and fatty acids
What digestive juice from liver helps to absorb fat in blood stream?
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What digestive juice from your liver hepls to absorb fats in the bloodstream?
lipase helps to absorbs fat in your bloodstream
What makes fat more available to digestive enzymes?
Bile emulsifies the fat, breaking it down into smaller pieces. This increases the surface area of the fat particles and makes it more available for action by digestive enzymes.
What type of enzyme are digestive enzyme?
things like amylase which breaks down carbohydrates and lipase which breaks down fat/lipids. these are some types of digestive enzymes
How does the liver help to digest fats?
Bile is the liqued produced by the liver and stored and contrated in the gall bladder until needed for digestion. Bile acts like a detergent to break up large fat globules into smaller ones that pancreatic enzymes in pancreatic juice can break down small enough that fat can be absorbed through the small intestine wall. The enzyme that breaks down fat (lipids) is called lipase. When food, in the form of 'chyme', goes into the small intestine from the stomach, bile and digestive juices from the pancreus are added via the common bile duct (a tube that conveys the bile from the liver and the panreatic juice from the pancreus to the SI (small intestine)).
What does the digestive system convert?
The digestive system converts food into nutrients. Breaking it down with enzymes and other chemicals. It turns it into nutrients and fat (Fat is to be stored for later use to provide energy).
How is meat digested?
Meat primarily consists of Protein and fat. Stomach produces gastric acid, pepsin and other digestive enzymes to break down proteins. Liver, produces digestive juice-bile. Bile is stored between meals in the gallbladder. At mealtime, it is squeezed out of the gallbladder, through the bile ducts, and into the intestine to mix with the fat in food. The bile acids dissolve fat into the watery contents of the intestine, much like detergents that dissolve grease from a frying pan. After fat is dissolved, it is digested by enzymes from the pancreas and the lining of the intestine.
What is the bile's function in the digestive system?
the main function of bile in digestive system is that, it breaks down fat and cholesterol in food and helps in elimination of waste.
Does the liver store digestive juices?
No, the liver does not store digestive juices. That would be the pancrease. HOWEVER, the liver does synthesize bile. This is not a digestive juice, but it does emulsify fat. Basically, this means that it breaks it down so that the surface area of the fact increases, exposing more of the fat to the enzymes. This will enable the enzymes to operate more efficiently. However, bile is not stored in the liver, it is only synthesized there. Bile is stored in the gallbladder.
Why does bile juice has no digestive enzymes?
Your liver produces bile, which is stored in the gall bladder until it's triggered by eating foods that contain fat. Bile is then released into the small intestine where it works like a detergent to emulsify the fats into smaller droplets. This makes it easier for pancreatic lipase to break down the fat. If people who don't have a gall bladder eat a lot of fatty foods, the fat isn't digested and acts as a laxative.
