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your body digests protein because it is an important nutrient for staying healthy. Just as it digests fat and carbohydrates

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What does pepsin help digest in the human body?

Pepsin helps digest proteins in the human body.


Why do people have to digest your food?

Food has to be digested so our body can get the proteins and nutrients etc. out of it, food is the fuel for the body


Enzyme that digest proteins?

Proteases are enzyme that digest proteins. In stomach we have proteases such as trypsin, pepsin and chymotrypsin that digest proteins. In addition there are peptidases that digest the peptides to simple amino acids.


Is meat easy to digest for the human body?

Meat can be harder for the human body to digest compared to other foods, as it contains complex proteins and fats that require more time and energy to break down.


What foods stay in your body the longest?

Foods high in fat and protein tend to stay in the body longer, as they take longer to digest. Examples include red meat, nuts, and whole milk products. Foods high in fiber also stay in the body longer because they are more difficult to digest.


What are perfect proteins?

Proteins are found in meat,egg,plants are all perfect for our body functions. They digest in to amino acids in our body and provide essential amino acids for our own proteins synthesis. This term may also mean the stable proteins after undergoing folding after synthesis.


What perfects proteins?

Proteins are found in meat,egg,plants are all perfect for our body functions. They digest in to amino acids in our body and provide essential amino acids for our own proteins synthesis. This term may also mean the stable proteins after undergoing folding after synthesis.


Does HCI digest protein?

No,a digestive enzyme known as 'Pepsin' digests proteins.But yes,HCl is an acidic medium for 'Pepsin to work.Without HCl,our body cannot digest proteins.


Does carboxypeptidase digest proteins?

Yes.


What is protease AM?

helps digest proteins


How do proteins help in digestion?

Proteins need an acid environmet to digest.


Why are liquids easier to digest than solids?

It is harder to digest solids because you have to chew, then your body has to break everything in the solids down, for when you digest liquids it only has to take out proteins. Vince-liquid is easily digested but solids are not