to help you swallow the food
saliva
salvia
In the digestive system, digestion starts in your mouth. Your teeth grind your food into small pieces. Your digestive juices can only work on the outside of food. by grinding food into small pieces, it gives your food a whole lot more area for your digestive juices to work on. Also the saliva in your mouth is a digestive juice. It starts the process of digesting carbohydrates.
Saliva?
Salivary amylase, which starts the breakdown of carbohydrates Saliva, in your mouth helps with the grinding and digestion of carbohydrate food.
Amylase works in the mouth and small intestine in the digestive system.
What I do is drink a lot of cranberry juice.
The greatest amount of active mixing takes place in the mouth.
Pepsin is the "digestive juice" that digests proteins.
takes place in the mouth
Orange juice
no