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Amylase, pepsin, and lipase are enzymes that play crucial roles in the digestion of food. Amylase, found in saliva and the pancreas, breaks down carbohydrates into simpler sugars. Pepsin, active in the acidic environment of the stomach, digests proteins into smaller peptides. Lipase, primarily produced by the pancreas, is responsible for breaking down fats into fatty acids and glycerol, facilitating their absorption in the intestines.
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What enzyme speeds up the breakdown of food?
It varies for all the food groups. For fat/lipid lipase breaks down,for proteins pepsin breaks down and for carbohydrates amylase.
Lipase are to lipids as pepsin is to?
pepsin is used to degrade food proteins to peptides.
What basic food group is amylase capable of digesting?
The basic food group that amylase capable of digesting is protein, and the lipase is lipids The basic food group that amylase capable of digesting is protein, and the lipase is lipids
What doe the pancreas do?
It sercretes digestive enzymes such as amylase,lipase and protease.This help me to digest food.
What are the enzymes that digest your food?
amylase = starch, digestion starts in the mouth, pepsin = protein, starts in the stomachlysosomes.
What realeases enzymes to help us digest food?
Amylase, Lipase, Cellulase, Maltase, Lactase, Phytase, and Sucrase
What enzyme is present in the stomach?
Pepsin is activated by acid in the stomach and breaks proteins -- including those in meat, dairy, eggs and vegetable sources.
Effect of HCl on protein digestion by pepsin and starch digestion by sallivary amylase?
HCl activates pepsinogen to form pepsin, which is the active form of the enzyme pepsin necessary for protein digestion in the stomach. However, HCl does not directly affect salivary amylase. Salivary amylase works optimally at a neutral pH in the mouth before food reaches the stomach, where it begins the digestion of starch into smaller sugars before being inactivated by stomach acid.
Which two enzymes would be active in the stomach?
The small intestine receives the secretion of two glands : liver and pancreas. liver secretes bile and pancreas secrete pancreatic juice which contain pancreatic amylase and trypsin and lipase.
What are example of pancreatic enzymes?
Some examples of pancreatic enzymes include amylase, lipase, and protease. Amylase helps break down carbohydrates, lipase breaks down fats, and protease breaks down proteins. These enzymes are produced by the pancreas and play a crucial role in the digestion of food in the small intestine.
The stomach produces what?
The stomach produces several chemicals to digest food. Some are enzyme pepsin, hydrochloric acid, gastric lipase and pepsinoge, which are digestive enzymes.
What does the stomach produce?
The stomach produces several chemicals to digest food. Some are enzyme pepsin, hydrochloric acid, gastric lipase and pepsinoge, which are digestive enzymes.
