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Bolus (masticated food) enters the stomach through the esophagus via the esophageal sphincter. The stomach releases proteases (protein-digesting enzymes such as pepsin) and hydrochloric acid, which kills or inhibits bacteria and provides the acidic pH of two for the proteases to work. Food is churned by the stomach through muscular contractions of the wall called peristalsis - reducing the volume of the fundus, before looping around the fundus[3] and the body of stomach as the boluses are converted into chyme (partially digested food). Chyme slowly passes through the pyloric sphincter and into the duodenum of the small intestine, where the extraction of nutrients begins. Depending on the quantity and contents of the meal, the stomach will digest the food into chyme anywhere between forty minutes and a few hours. The average human stomach can comfortably hold about a litre of food
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∙ 8y agoAll the nutrients that are in the food we eat is absorbed through the small intestine. These organs are ones that we can not live without.
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Where does most of the digestive process take place?
Small intestine
Where does most digestion take place in the human body?
Most of the physical digestion takes place in the stomach, but the completion and absorption is done in the small intestine.
Do mastication takes place in the small intestine?
Yes it does
Where the most digestion takes place?
Small intestine
Most of the digestion takes place where?
Small intestine
What does small intestine do in digestion?
The small intestine is where the vast majority of digestion and absorption of food takes place.
Chemical digestion of fat takes place where?
Small Intestine.
Where does maximum absorption takes place in a vertebrate alimentary canal?
the large intestine
The greatest amount of absorption in the small intestine takes place in the?
Actually the Complete Absorption takes Place in the small intestine .It contains Finger likeprojections called Micro villi these run through the small intestine which increases thesurface area for absorption.
What does the small intestiene do?
Digestion and absorption of food and nutrients takes place in the small intestine.
Enzymatic digestion of starches takes place in the small intestine and?
Mouth
Where does most chemical digestion take place and nutrients are absorbed into the blood?
chemical digestion takes place in the small intestine large intestine,mouth and stomach. Nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine and minerals in the large intestine.
