Question

The process of taking food into the body is called

Answer 1

The process of taking food into the body is called Ingestion.

Explanation:

• We take the food in our body through mouth and this process of taking food inside our body to produce energy is known as ingestion.

• During the process of ingestion, when food is enetred into the mouth, the food substances are broken down by teeth and saliva.

•Teeth helps in grinding the substances of food into small pieces. And saliva has the role to break starch into sugar by the help of an enzyme which is present in it called as salivary amylase. Apart from this, saliva also has the role to lubricate and moisten our mouth.

•Ingestion is the first step in the process of obtaining nutrition for our body

•Egestion is the opposite of ingestion in which the unwanted or the waste substances are removed from our body through this egestion process.

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