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Where does your food go after being swallowed and gets mixed with acid?
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After being swallowed food goes in this place where it is mixed with acid?
stomach
If your mouth produces amylase and your stomach is highly acidic what happens to the amylase when you swallow?
Amylase is an enzyme, which is a type of protein. Protein denatures when temperature or pH (acidity) is changed. for example, amylase will no longer digest starch if you put it in a boiling water bath for 5 minutes. in the stomach, hydrochloric acid is produced by the stomach lining to digest food. this acid will denature the amylase when the swallowed food mixed with amylase from the mouth enters the stomach.
What enzyme does hydrochloric acid activate?
Pepsin, in its inactive form it is known as pepsinogen. Lingual lipase, secreted by lingual glands in the tongue, are activated by the acidic environment of the stomach and thus work starts to work after food is swallowed.
Where does food get mixed with strong acids?
It gets mixed in the enzymes
After being swallowed food goes to this place where it is mixed with acids?
* On this being done, the saliva, a viscid liquor, is poured into the mouth from the salivary glands, and as it mixes with the food, it performs a very important part in the operation of digestion, rendering the starch of the food soluble, and gradually changing it into a sort of sugar, after which the other principles become more miscible with it. Nearly a pint of saliva is furnished every twenty-four hours for the use of an adult. When the food has been masticated and mixed with the saliva, it is then passed into the stomach, where it is acted upon by a juice secreted by the filaments of that organ, and poured into the stomach in large quantities whenever food comes in contact with its mucous coats. It consists of a dilute acid known to the chemists as hydrochloric acid, composed of hydrogen and chlorine, united together in certain definite proportions. The gastric juice contains, also, a peculiar... http://www.sotder.org/health_articles.php?aid=6647
After being swallowed food goes in this place where it is mixed with acid?
stomach
After being swallow food goes in this place where its mixed with acid?
stomach
After being mixed where would the food go to be mixed with acid?
After being chewed, food goes down a tube called the esophagus and into the stomach which is very acidic.
Where does food go after being swallowed?
The Stomach
Which organ dose the food enter after being chewed and swallowed?
Stomach
If your mouth produces amylase and your stomach is highly acidic what happens to the amylase when you swallow?
Amylase is an enzyme, which is a type of protein. Protein denatures when temperature or pH (acidity) is changed. for example, amylase will no longer digest starch if you put it in a boiling water bath for 5 minutes. in the stomach, hydrochloric acid is produced by the stomach lining to digest food. this acid will denature the amylase when the swallowed food mixed with amylase from the mouth enters the stomach.
What organ of the digestive system produces acid that kills most of the bacteria swallowed with food?
Your mom! she didn't tell you?
Where does the food go which is mixed with acid?
it goes somewhere over the rainbow
What is mixed with saliva to help break down food?
The acid in your stomach.
In which organ does food get mixed with enzymes and acid to make chyme?
The stomach, an organ of the digestive system, churns food and has hydrochloric acid in it.
Oropharynx is the passageway of food?
Yes, after being placed in the mouth and chewed, the food bolus is swallowed, passing through the oropharynx into the esophagus.
Why should you not eat junk food and drink alcohol?
the acid in the junk food mixed with alcohol will make your stomach explode.
