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What organ helps mix food with saliva?
stomach
Organ that mixes food in the mouth?
The tongue is the organ responsible for mixing food in the mouth. It helps to push food towards the teeth for mechanical digestion and also assists in shaping the food into a bolus before swallowing.
Organ that mixes food in the mouth and initiates swallowing?
The organ responsible for mixing food in the mouth and initiating swallowing is the tongue. It helps move food around in the mouth to mix it with saliva and then pushes the food to the back of the mouth to start the swallowing process.
Why do you need to mix food with saliva?
Mixing food with saliva helps to break down carbohydrates in the food into simpler sugars, which can then be detected by taste buds. Saliva also contains enzymes that aid in digestion, making it easier for the body to absorb nutrients from the food we eat.
What is mastification?
mechanical breakdown of food and mixing food with saliva, also called mastication.
What liquid helps soften food as you chew it?
Saliva in the mouth helps to soften food as you chew it. Saliva helps begin the breakdown of foods.
It helps digest your food?
saliva
What organ adds saliva and mixes up food?
salavary glands
Does the The tongue secret saliva?
Saliva is produced by salivary glands in the mouth, not by the tongue itself. The tongue plays a role in mixing saliva with food during chewing and swallowing.
What helps moistens food as you eat?
Saliva.
What in the mouth helps you to chemically digest food?
Saliva
What in the mouth helps chemically digest food?
saliva
