mechanical digestion is when you are breaking down food almost by hand. you're breaking it down manually. an example of mechanical digestion is chewing. it begins in your mouth and ends once you swallow.
Chemical digestion of food begins in your mouth. You have amylase enzyme, also called as ptylin present in your saliva to digest the starch. You have lingual lipase to digest the fat. You masticate the food and that is a mechanical process.
It takes place in the intestines to keep food moving along.
Saliva glands and teeth are the start of digestion
Digestion begins in the mouth and ends in the large intestine.
The major organ responsible for chemical digestion and absorption of food is the small intestine.
Stomach
Some chemical digestion of carbohydrates occurs in the mouth with salivary amylase. Most chemical digestion occurs in the duodenum of the small intestine.
Digestion that occurs in the intestines is a chemical change.
Human organ that aids in digestion
small intestine
Stomach and Mouth
The major organ responsible for chemical digestion and absorption of food is the small intestine.
I don't think of it as an organ, but chemical digestion of starch begins in the mouth, using saliva.
Your stomach.
Mouth?
Teethyour mouth
Stomach
Most of the digestion occurs (believe it or not) not in the stomach, but the smaller intestine.
fatty acidsglycerol
The first major site of chemical digestion in frog is their stomach
The mouth is where literally begins,