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Is food reacting with pepsin a chemical or mechanical change?

This is a chemical change. Pepsin catalyzes the chemical breakdown of food.


Is pepsin and lipase a chemical reaction?

No, pepsin and lipase are enzymes. Enzymes are biological molecules that catalyze chemical reactions in living organisms. Pepsin helps break down proteins into peptides, while lipase aids in the breakdown of fats into fatty acids and glycerol.


Is pepsin chemical or mechanical digestion?

Pepsin is an enzyme that plays a role in chemical digestion. It breaks down proteins into smaller peptides in the stomach.


What is a chemical that helps break down food?

Pepsin =)


Is effect of pepsin on proteins a chemical reaction?

Yes, it is. Proteins in the presence of pepsin are converted into peptide chains (polypeptides). The reaction is : Proetins→ (In the presence of pepsin-to be written over the arrow) Polypeptides.


What is chemical found in the stomach needed to activate pepsinogen to pepsin?

Hydrochloric acid (HCl) is the chemical found in the stomach that is needed to activate pepsinogen to its active form, pepsin. HCl creates an acidic environment in the stomach that enables pepsinogen to undergo a conformational change and become pepsin, which is essential for protein digestion.


What chemical in the stomach begins to denature protein in the stomach?

They are the enzymes . Predominant one is Pepsin


What chemical in the stomach helps digest protein?

This is the gastric juice, a mixture of hydrochloric acid and pepsin.


Why does pepsin not digest sucrose?

Sucrose is a type of carbohydrate. Pepsin is a protease, so it can only digest proteins, because enzymes are specific to one kind of molecule. Sucrose would be broken down by a carbohydrase.


What chemical (s) can be found in your stomach to digest proteins?

Three enzymes are important: pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin.


Does gastric juice contain enzymes?

The stomach produces pepsin, mucus, HCl and intrinsic factor (which helps absorb B12). This is called gastric juice. Pepsin is a protease, or an enzyme that breaks chemical bonds in protein.Pepsin uses the carboxylic acid group on one of its amino acids to break the chemical bond between nitrogen and oxygen in the proteins found in food.


What food does pepsin begin to breakdown?

Pepsin begins the digetion of Protein. Pepsin is found in the stomach.