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Does the stomach produce saliva?
Only the mouth produces saliva. The stomach organ produces gastric juices to break down foods. Saliva breaks down starch , when food reaches the stomach ,starch will be mostly broken down , thus the need of a new substance to break other nutrients is needed , eg: pepsin.
What nutrient is absorbed into your saliva?
Your saliva does not absorb nutrients. Your saliva breaks down starch into glucose.
What is digestgion?
The chemical break down of food in your body to extract nutrients key to survival. Saliva, stomach and intestines do most of the digesting
Why do you need to mix food with saliva?
Mixing food with saliva helps to break down carbohydrates in the food into simpler sugars, which can then be detected by taste buds. Saliva also contains enzymes that aid in digestion, making it easier for the body to absorb nutrients from the food we eat.
How does nutrients get from mouth down esophagus?
You break it down by chewing it and while you're doing that, your saliva will help dampen the food. Once it is small enough, you swallow it and it travels down through your esophagus. Your nutrients are absorbed while it travels, not while it is in the esophagus.
How does your saliva break down food?
it has special enzymes that break down food suckas
Why you makes saliva?
To break down carbohydrates
What does saliva do to an apple?
Enzymes in saliva will start to break down the apple such as amylase which will break carhohydates into simple sugars
What would happen if your salivary glands did not secrete saliva?
If there is no saliva, then some of the food you eat will not break as easily into the nutrients your body needs.
What best describes the function of the digestive system?
To break down food into nutrients.
Break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil?
Bacteria typically break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil. Sometimes fungi will break down essential nutrients and return them to the soil as well.
What helps saliva break down food?
Teeth
