What is the mouth's influence on carbohydrates? What is the stomach's effect on carbs? What is the effect of the small intestine on the carbohydrates? What is the mouth's effect on protein? What is the stomach's effect on protein? what is the small intestine effect on protein? What is the effect of the mouth of fat? What is the effect of the stomach on fat? What is the effect of the small intestine on fat? What happens to food in the stomach after it is digested?

1. What is the mouth's influence on carbohydrates?

releases salivary amylases (ptyalin) starts to break down complex carbohydrates

2. What is the stomach's effect on carbs?

little effect

3. What is the effect of the small intestine on the carbohydrates?

complex carbohydrates broken down to simple sugars by amylases from pancreas

4. What is the mouth's effect on protein?

No effect

5. What is the stomach's effect on protein?

Pepsin (activated by acid) breaks proteins into peptones

6. what is the small intestine effect on protein?

peptones broken down into peptides & free amino acids by proteases from the pancreas

7. What is the effect of the mouth of fat?

no effect

8. What is the effect of the stomach on fat?

little effect

9. What is the effect of the small intestine on fat?

emulsified by bile (from liver) fatty acids released by lipases from pancreas

10. What happens to food in the stomach after it is digested?

transformed into chyme and then moved into the small intestine, where nutrients are absorbed in the small intestines, and water by large intestine