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Bile salts do not digest fats. They cause the fats to become smaller and that increases the surface area so that enzymes in the digestive tract can act quickly.
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What Emulsification agent helps to digest fat?
bile is the emulsification agent that helps to digest fats.
Where does fat digest?
Fats is digested in the duodenum by the bile salts. The process is called emulsification.
Bile salts are responsible for the digestion and absorption of?
Bile is produced in the liver and helps to digest fat in the human body. Once produced, bile is stored in the gallbladder and is discharged into the duodenum when a person eats.
What kind of nutritional substance is broken down by bile?
The answer is bile salts. You have sodium taurocholate and sodium glaucocholate as bile salts. They do emulsification of the fat. That helps in fat digestion.
What is emulsified by bile salts?
fat
Why is bile important?
bile salts in bile speed up fat digestion
What helps by producing some digestive juices called bile?
You have bile salts in the bile. The bile salts emulsify the fat into fine particles. The surface area of the fat get greatly increased. The fat splitting enzyme called as lipase get chance to split the fat into fatty acids and glycerol.
What is the importance of bile salts in digestion?
the bile converts larger molecules of fat into emulsified fat by a process called emulsification
Did the pancreatic extract hydrolyze fat in presence of bile?
The pancreatic extracts hydrolyze fat in presence of bile. The enzyme lipase in pancreas hydrolyzes fat when there are bile salts.
When fat is emulsified what does it break into?
emulsification
What does the bile produced by liver break down?
Bile helps digest fatty foods by emulsifying the fats.
What triggers the release of bile salts?
Bile salts are really necessary to break down fat into very small particles. No bile salts (after a gallbladder removal) and then eat a fatty meal, be ready to run to the bathroom!
