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Understanding Human Digestion Process

The document outlines the process of digestion, detailing both physical and chemical digestion stages, starting from saliva's role in breaking down carbohydrates to the stomach's gastric juices that further digest proteins. It explains the functions of bile and pancreatic juice in neutralizing acid and emulsifying fats, as well as the role of intestinal juice in final digestion. The document concludes with the breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats into their respective end products.

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Understanding Human Digestion Process

The document outlines the process of digestion, detailing both physical and chemical digestion stages, starting from saliva's role in breaking down carbohydrates to the stomach's gastric juices that further digest proteins. It explains the functions of bile and pancreatic juice in neutralizing acid and emulsifying fats, as well as the role of intestinal juice in final digestion. The document concludes with the breakdown of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats into their respective end products.

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DIGESTION

Saliva (alkaline)
Physical digestion • salivary amylase
• water
• Chewing of food increases
surface area for enzymic
action
Gastric juice
Chemical digestion
• Carbohydrate ---> Maltose 1. Hydrochloric acid
• Kills bacteria
(salivary amylase)
• Activates protease and stops
salivary amylase
pH 6.7
2. Protease (pepsin)
• Protein -- polypeptides

3. Renin coagulates soluble


milk protein (caseinogen)
• No digestion into insoluble casein
• Food is rolled by the tongue into
a ball called bolus and pushed 4. Mucus protects the stomach
into stomach by peristalsis. walls
• Peristalsis is a rhythmic process
of contraction and relaxation of Chyme (semi-liquid)
muscles. pH 2.0
Bile
• neutralizes acid in
chyme Pancreatic juice
• Emulsifies fat into • Amylase
lipid droplets to Produces bile and
• Protease (trypsin)
increase its surface stores it in the
• Lipase
area for lipase to gallbladder
act

Amylase
• Starch -> maltose

Protease (trypsin)
Polypeptide ->
dipeptide

Lipase
• Fat -> fatty acids +
glycerol

ph 6.8
Intestinal juice
1) Maltase
• Maltose -> glucose

Undigested food enters 2) Sucrase


Water reabsorbed 3) Lactase

4) Protease (erepsin)
Dipeptides -> amino acids

5) Lipase
Fat -> fatty acids + glycerol

End of digestion

Faeces stored here and


excreted through the
anus
Disaccharides
Sucrose

(glucose+fructose)

Lactose

(glucose+galactose)

Maltose

(glucose+glucose)
Glucose + glucose = maltose
Carbohydrate
amylase maltase Glucose + galactose = lactose

Starch -------------------> maltose -------------------> glucose Glucose + fructose = sucrose

Protein Protease
Protease Protease
(trypsin)
(pepsin) (erepsin)
Protein ---------> polypeptides -----------------> dipeptides ----------------> amino acids

Fat lipase
bile

Fat -----------------> (fatty droplets) ------------------------> fatty acids + glycerol

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