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Which intestine do proteins carbohydrates and fat chemically digest?
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Proteins, carbohydrates and fats are all digested in the small intestine. The liver, gallbladder, and pancreas secrete chemicals into the small intestine to digest these nutrients. The large intestine absorbs water from the food, leaving behind waste products.
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What organ produces enzymes that break down fats proteins and carbohydrates?
The gallbladder, which is an accessory organ of the small intestines, makes bile which is secreted into the small intestine and emulsifies (breaks down) fats.
The and the liver send fluids to the small intestine that helps in digestion?
The pancreas, liver, and gallbladder all secrete substances which help digest food in the small intestine. These liquids can digest fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
Does the small intestine digest bread?
Yes, the small intestine does digest the carbohydrates found in bread.
Which organs digest grains?
Grains are carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are digested by the small intestine.
What do complex carbohydrates and proteins have in common?
slow to digest
What happens to starches in the small intestine and how are these changes brought about?
The starches, or carbohydrates, that you eat do not get digested in the stomach, it only digests proteins. Your pancreas secretes digestive juices that digest all three forms of food; proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. The specific enzyme that aids in the digestion on starches is pancreatic lipase which it delivers to the first part of the small intestine called the duodenum.
What is the oval organ that sends fluid into the small intestine to chemically digest and neutralize chyme?
pancreas
What secretes enzymes that digest carbohydrates proteins lipids and nucleic acids?
Proteins are digested by proteases and cabohydratases digest carbohydrase (amylase, galactosidase, cellulase etc.)
What do pancreatic enzymes digest?
The pancreatic enzymes amylase, trypsin and lipase digest proteins, fatty acids, carbohydrates and starches.
Which Two organs that secrete enzymes to help the digestive tract?
There are actually three organs that secrete digestive substances into the small intestine to help digest proteins, carbohydrates and fats. These organs are: - the liver - the pancreas - the gallbladder
The pancreas secretes which substance to help the small intestine digest food?
carbohydrates, protein, and fat in the chyme.
What chemicals are involved in digestion?
That is a good question! In your stomach, you have very strong hydrochloric acid to assist the digestion. From the third part of duodenum onward, you have alkaline medium to digest the food. Sodium bicarbonate is there in small intestine. You have various enzymes to assist the digestion. You have amylase or ptyalin in your saliva for carbohydrates. You have pepsin in your stomach for digestion of proteins. You have trypsin and chymotrypsin in the intestine to digest the polypeptides from proteins. You have amylase, maltase, lactase, sucrase etc to digest the various types of carbohydrates in the small intestine. You have lipase and bile salts to digest the fats in the small intestine.
