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Enzyme is one of the body chemicals that break down food. It is ready in your saliva before you eat. Bile, or stomach acid also breaks down food during digestion.

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When your body breaks down food into nutrients what type of digestion takes place?

When your body breaks down food into nutrients, chemical digestion is taking place. In contrast, physical digestion breaks down food mechanically into smaller particles.


A chemical that breaks down food in the body into smaller bits is called what?

A digestive enzyme


Why does food changes when it is in your body?

Because the body breaks down the food we eat by a chemical process called "digestion." It starts in our mouth.


What breaks down food in your body?

Your stomach


The process in which your body breaks down food into small nutrient molecules is called?

Mechanical digestion. The actual grinding and physical breaking down of food. Chemical digestion breaks down food using chemicals/enyzyms and chemical reactions.


A chemical which breaks down food in the body into smaller bits is called a what?

An enzyme is a chemical that breaks down food into smaller bits in the body. Enzymes help to speed up biological processes, such as digestion, by breaking down complex molecules into simpler ones that the body can absorb and use for energy.


What type of energy does food contain before you eat it and your body breaks it down?

The food has chemical in it,that chemical goes in your mouth,then it becomes Mechanical energy/digestion. If your talking just the food itself,its chemical energy/digestion.


What happens to the food when it is in the body?

it breaks down


What is the chemical in body that breaks food into smaller buts?

Saliva


Is energy from food chemical energy?

Yes, energy from food is considered chemical energy. When we consume food, our body breaks down the chemical bonds in the food molecules to release energy that our cells can use for various biological processes.


Why does your body break down the food?

Your body breaks down food so that it can get the nutrients into usable form.


When you eat your body breaks down the food you eat into a form of sugar called what?

Your body breaks down the food you eat into a form of sugar called glucose.