What is role of HCL in digestion?
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the main role of hydrochloric acid is to make the food free from bacteria that is to sterilize and triggers the release of enzymes such as pepsin.
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- HCl is one of the gastric juices secreted by stomach.
- HCl converts the inactive enzyme pepsinogen into its active form pepsin.
- Pepsin digests proteins and breaks them into amino acids.
- HCl also kills harmful pathogens or particles in our food when it reaches the stomach through the gastrointestinal duct.
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