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Yes, the tongue is involved in the first stage of digestion, mastication, inwhich food is broken down mechanically into smaller pieces. Additonally, salivary glands begin the digestion of carbohydrates by secreting salivary amylase, which begins the breakdown of carbs and sugar.
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∙ 10y agoThe tongue tastes the food. The stomach digests the food.
Food is digested in the stomach and small intestine, it is not digested to any great extent in the mouth. The tongue helps you to move food around inside your mouth, so you can chew it and swallow it, and it helps you to decide what kind of food you want to eat, by giving you a sense of taste, but it does not digest food.
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What is the name of the liquid in your tongue?
Saliva ,helps digest food
Does food give you energy as soon as you put it in your mouth?
no you need to digest it first but it will go strait into your bloodstream if it is under your tongue.
What organs and muscles does a frog use to catch and digest its food?
they use their tongue to catch the food, they use their mouth to chew it, they use their eyes to push the food down it's throat, their esophogus to swallow and their food, their pancreas to produce digestive enzymes and their stomach as a place to digest it.
What does the tongue and the saliviar glance do?
The tongue tastes, and it makes shapes to form words with the mouth, the salivary glands lubricate the movement in the mouth and helps produces the emszym amalase to digest food
What is the tongue's role in the digestive sytem?
Without a throat you won't be able to breath, consume food and water and other liquids.
Do flatworms digest food?
Yes they do digest food.
Can a flatworm digest food?
Yes, they can digest food.
Do snails digest their food?
Yes, snails do digest their food.
Do reptiles digest their food?
yes reptiles do digest food
Can a mushroom digest its food?
no it cant digest its own food
digest?
people digest food through their mouth then they eat food then the food goes through their ******
How does the scarlet macaw digest food?
they use digestive juices to digest the food
