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digestion starts in you mouth when you begin to chew and chemically change you food with you saliva. A group of muscles in you esophagus push your mush of food down your neck into your stomach where the acids break down the food even further. When you food is completely broken down, it travel out of the stomach and into the small intestine where another group of muscles push on the food and squeeze out the nutrients and minerals. Once it finishes in the small intestine, it heads to the large where the food is squeezed again for mainly water. When done with the large intestine, the muck heads to the rectum to be released as solid waste. (eew! =])
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 8y agoDigestion begins in the mouth. Chewing and the addition of saliva are the first steps in digestion.
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∙ 11y agoDigestion starts from mouth as saliva present in mouth breakdown the starch present in food
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∙ 14y agoDigestion begins in the mouth. Saliva contains an enzyme called amylase which digests starches.
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What organ breaks up food and begins digesting?
The mouth.
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Saprobic bacteria is that of which begins the decomposition process by eating and digesting tissues
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When you eat, your gallbladder contracts and releases stored bile where it begins to help break down the fat in your food. The person might face problem in digesting fat globules...
Carbohydrates are needed to spare protein in the body?
Yes. When the body needs energy, it digests carbohydrates and sugars at first. If none are available, it begins to digest your fat. And if that isn't available, it begins digesting protein.
Where does Digesting food begin?
Digestion of food begins in your mouth. You have amylase enzyme, also called as ptylin present in your saliva to digest the starch.
The digestion of startch begins in the?
Starch digestion begins in the mouth. Saliva in the mouth enables chemical digestion to take place before starch enters the stomach.
What are some functions to the buccal cavity in digesting foods?
Its is the first part of alimentary cansl, it recives food mixes it with saliva and begins digestion by breaking them into smaller pieces
What are digesting problems?
Digesting problems are when a person or animal has trouble digesting food in the stomach or intestings and where an animal and a human suffers unbearableble pain.
What would happen if all of the chitin-digesting and cellulose-digesting organisms on the earth were destroyed?
The destruction of the chitin-digesting and cellulose digesting organism will cause an imbalance on earth. They are very important to maintaining balance in the ecosystem.
Are nutrients released when digesting Food?
Yes. That is the reason for eating and digesting food.
What does stomach acid usually slice through?
Your phrasing is unusual; acid is generally thought to dissolve, rather than to slice. But in any event, stomach acid begins the process of digesting protein in particular.
Why are protein digestive enzymes produced and released in an inactive form?
In the case of protein digesting enzymes, known as endopeptidases, such as those secreted in the stomach (pespin), it is obvious. If they were secreted active they would digest the glands which secrete the enzymes themselves (gastric glands). Instead they must be secreted in an inactive form, which once in the stomach and exposed to HCl acid and other pepsin enzymes the pepsinogen activates and begins digesting protein.
