Question

What is the role of saliva in the digestion of food ?What is the function of digestive enzymes bestanswerplease?

Answer 1

The digestive functions of salivainclude 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 before foodreaches the stomach.

Answer 2

as saliwa is in the form of a liquid, it makes food very sluury mass making the passage of food easily through food pipe.

then after reaching the food into the stomach,the dijestive enzymes make the food into smaller pieces and uses differenet kinds of enzymes for different kinds food intake...