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What is a slippery liquid that makes food easy to swallow and helps to break down the food?
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what is the slippery coating that helps foood slide along the digestive organs
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Slippery liquid that makes food easy to swallow and helps to break the food down?
Acid
How does liquid help digest your food?
the saliva helps when you swallow food enzymes make it easier.
How does liquid help digest food?
the saliva helps when you swallow food enzymes make it easier.
What is a slippery liquid that makes food easy to swallow and helps to break the food down?
There are many different liquids that break down food. For digestion, however, there are two. Hydrochloric acid and the enzymes in saliva. The salivary enzymes prepare food by weakening it and slightly dissolving the material until it passes into the stomach where the much stronger hydrochloric acid breaks down the food into a nutritious soup that can then be absorbed into the bloodstream via villi in the small intestine.
Is Saliva basic neutral or acidic?
saliva is an acidic because it helps break down food before you swallow it
Is saliva a acidic basic or neutral?
saliva is an acidic because it helps break down food before you swallow it
What helps food to travel down?
Well you food is first chewed and softened in the mouth where saliva makes it water and slippery. Then when you swallow it is moved to the stomach by muscular contractions of the gullet called peristalsis. Indeed you can swallow quite effectively even while standing on your head.
Do birds swallow or break food?
Birds tend to use small pebbles when it comes to digesting food because when they swallow their food, the rock goes down with it. What the rock does in the crunches and shrinks the size of the food making the digestion process faster. Hope this helps ! (;
What bird helps you eat?
A swallow.
How is Hydrochloric Acid helpful in daily life?
Hydrochloric acid helps in your digestive system. This liquid helps break up food in your stomach, this is part of the alimentary canal and this simple liquid can help turn little chunks of food into amino acids.
Do cows have salavary glands?
Yes they do. Saliva helps break down starches in their feed when they eat and when they chew their cud. Saliva also acts as a lubricant to make it easier to swallow food.
Helps you swallow your food and you use it to taste?
The tongue.
