NUTRITION
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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Question
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What does the mouth do?
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Breaks down the food to make it easier to swallow
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Sends nutrients into the bloodstream
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Nothing
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Digestion begins in the mouth. The food is ground up by the teeth and moistened with saliva to make it easy to swallow. Saliva also has a special chemical, called an enzyme, which starts breaking down carbohydrates into sugars.
Detailed explanation-2: -Saliva softens and moistens the food to make swallowing easier. Normally, the only solid we swallow without chewing is in the form of a pill or caplet. Everything else that we swallow is in the form of a liquid, a puree, or a chewed solid.
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