MEDICAL
STOMACH
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Question
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in the stomach
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in the mouth
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in the esophagus
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in the small intestine
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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: -Answer: We know that there exists salivary glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive enzymes, these enzymes helps in breaking complex sugars to simple sugars. Hence we can say that digestion begins in the mouth.
Detailed explanation-3: -Digestion involves mixing food with digestive juices, moving it through the digestive tract, and breaking down large molecules of food into smaller molecules. Digestion begins in the mouth, when you chew and swallow, and is completed in the small intestine.