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What helps push food down to the back of the mouth where it is swallowed?
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The tongue is a muscle which pushes food to the back of the mouth, where it the food is then swallowed.
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What helps push food down the back of your mouth?
That would be the esophagus.
What breaks starch into maltose in the mouth?
5% of the starches are broken down in the mouth before the food is swallowed.
What is the digestive function of the mouth?
The mouth plays the first part in digestion. While the teeth chew the food to enable it to be swallowed, enzymes in the saliva begin breaking the food down.
What is the various process of food propulsion?
Food enters mouth, as it is chewed, enzymes in the saliva begins to break it down. It is swallowed
What is the medical definition of take by month and swallowed?
The medical term for taking something by mouth and swallowing it is "oral ingestion." This is the process of consuming a substance through the mouth, where it passes down the throat and into the stomach for digestion and absorption into the body.
What in the mouth helps to chemically digest food?
Saliva helps the mouth to break down the food, but what digests the food is fiber, and stomach acid.
What is the function of the ossophagus?
The function of the esophagus is to move food from the mouth to te stomach. It is muscles that move the swallowed food slowly down and into your stomach
Which part of the body food passes down to the stomach?
The oesophagus is the tube that takes swallowed food from the mouth to the stomach.
What happens in pharynx?
The muscles in the esophagus move the food down into the stomach.
What does a mouth do during digestion?
Starches are broken down by amylase, the enzyme in saliva. Food particles are physically broken down by the act of chewing and grinding the food into a ball that can be swallowed (called a bolus).
Where does physical digestion begin?
This form of digestion starts in the mouth with the salivary gland witch break down food
What happened in buccal cavity?
food is put into the mouththe food is chewedfood broken down into piecessaliva mixes with the food(helps in breaking down of food)food is swallowed
