This form of digestion starts in the mouth with the salivary gland witch break down food
to begin the digestion of proteins
in the mouth
Yes
in the mouth
mechanical digestion
mouth
By definition mechanical digestion is a physical part of digestion.
Correctly, physical digestion begins in the mouth, when foodstuffs are pulverised and mashed up into small pieces, and coated with saliva, to make swallowing easier and to increase it's surface area. This process is completed in the stomach, where food is liquified by strong hydrochloric acid secreted by the gastric glands to make it easy to assimilate. All these processes are classed as physical digestion, but not actual ABSORPTION- this takes place in the small intestines. The only substance absorbed by the stomach is alcohol.
Digestion begins in your mouth. Starch is digested (by salivary amylase) into maltose.
Digestion begins in the mouth and ends in the large intestine.
The digestion of fat will begin in the small intestine, whereas the digestion of starch which begin in the mouth (the mouth contains the enzyme amylase, which helps break down starch)
the digestion of proteins begin in the stomach.