what is role of the acid in our stomach?
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Hydrochloric acid helps your body to break down, digest, and absorb nutrients such as protein. The hydrochloric acid found in the stomach facilitates the process of digestion by disintegrating complex large food molecules into simpler molecules. The acid activates the pepsinogen enzyme required to digest proteins.
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The Hydrochloric acid present in our stomach has 3 main roles.
(i) It dissolves bits of food which have been chewed.
(ii) Provides acidic medium which is essential for the activation of the enzyme pepsin which is essential for digestion.
(iii) The acid kills bacteria present in the stomach.
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