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Which of the following nutrients begin to digest in the mouth starch protein fats or vitamins?
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Why do your stomach need to digest your food?
So you have to digest so you can absorb nutrients and protein
What are the 5 main nutrients your body needs?
The five main nutrients are Carbohydrates, Protein, Vitamins, Minerals and Fats. Fibre is not a nutrient, but we do need it to help digestion (although you can't actually digest fibre itself!)
Why do we eat and defecate?
We need to eat to get protein vitamins etc and while our stomach digest it we will throw our non protein or vitamins etc and it will turn into poop
Why must your body digest?
Your body must digest food to get energy from the vitamins, nutrients, and all the other stuff your body needs to survive.
Why must your body digest food?
Your body must digest food to get energy from the vitamins, nutrients, and all the other stuff your body needs to survive.
What order do nutrients digest during digestion?
Mouth esophagus stomach small intestine large intestine rectum anus
Which enzyme will digest protein if pH is 1.6?
protease will digest protein
What effect do enzymes in the intestine have on protein?
Once you digest food the enzymes in the intestine will digest the nutrients into small components. So that they could be absorbed by the intestine into the bloodstream, and throughout the body in order to be reused by the body cells.
Are there any nutrients that the stomach small intestines and the large intestine digest?
They digest ALL nutrients. Otherwise you would die because you would get no nutrients.
What if the function of ascending colon?
The ascending colon carries fecal matter to transverse colon. Along it's tract, bacteria digest the fecal material to release vitamins, nutrients and water.
Why a human that is a vegetarian does not starve even though the human body can not digest cellulose?
Vegetarians get al their requirements of nutrients from starch in grains, priteins frim pulses ,most of the other nutrients from vegetable greens and oil suluble vitamins from diary products.
Main function of small intestines?
chemical digestion and absorption of nutrients
