What is salivary digestion ?
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The digestive functions of salivainclude moistening food, and helping to create a food bolus, so it can be swallowed easily. Salivacontains 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.
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digestion process through saliva as it contain salivary amylase (ptyalin) that breaks 30% of the total starch into disaccharides
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