HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saliva is present in the buccal cavity. It helps in lubricating and adhering the masticated food particles into a bolus.(mass of food) has salivary amylase that hydrolyzed 30% of starch into maltose. Hence, it helps in particle digestion of food. So the correct answer is ‘Saliva’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Minor salivary glands – make the clear fluid (saliva) that keeps the mouth moist and contains enzymes to break down food. These glands are found in various locations around the mouth, including the inner cheeks.

Detailed explanation-4: -bolus, food that has been chewed and mixed in the mouth with saliva.