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How is your food digested? |
You have special enzymes that catalyse the breakdown (digestion) of large food molecules to smaller molecules. They are called digestive enzymes |
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Digestive enzymes |
- are made in specialised cells in glands and in the lining of the gut - pass out of the cells where they are made and into the gut - come into contact with food molecules and catalyse the breakdown of large food molecules into smaller molecules |
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Amylase |
Amylase are made in: salivary glands, in the pancrease, in the lining of the small intestine What it does: catalyses the breakdown of starch molecules into sugar molecules Where it does it: In the mouth and the small intestine |
