Q.1.How does saliva help to digest the food? Does saliva contain starch, explain your answer
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When we chew the food then the saliva mix up with them and get inside it helps us to digest
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The digestive functions of saliva include moistening food, and helping to create a food bolus, so it can be swallowed easily.
Saliva contains the enzyme amylase that breaks some starches down into maltose and dextrin.
Thus, digestion of food occurs within the mouth, even before food reaches the stomach.
Saliva contains the digestive enzyme α-amylase. α-Amylase is known to catalyse the hydrolysis of starch, whereby it is broken down into simple carbohydrates and water as a part of the healthy digestion of foods.
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