What is the role of saliva in digestion of food?
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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 beforefood reaches the stomach.
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Saliva contains salivary amylase enzyme that breaks down starch into sugars like maltose .
Saliva keeps the mouth cavity clean and moistens the food that help in chewing and breaking down the big pieces of food into smaller ones .
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