Question

35. If we were to say that “digestion begins in the mouth”, how would you explain this? Write.

Answer 1

The food is digested in the mouth itself by the muscular activity of tongue of mixing food with saliva which converts starch inty sugar maltose

Answer 2

digestion actually means breaking down of food in simplier substance and digestion starts in mouth as saliva breaks the food into simplier substances in our mouth itself