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The term refers to the digestion and subsequent splitting of the crushing of the body supplied food into its component parts. This process is necessary so that the nutrients can be passed from the intestines to the blood. The bloodstream, the nutrients will go into the individual cells.

Digestion begins

The first step in digestion is carried in the mouth. A thorough and sufficiently long chewing of food is needed to crush the duly recorded food. Only when a sufficient mastication the food is sufficiently mixed with saliva. It contains an important enzyme called amylase, which is responsible for the digestion of carbohydrates absorbed.

Digestion of proteins


The next step, the shredded food is mixed with stomach acid in the stomach. Due to the aggressiveness of the stomach may be killed on the dietary germs and bacteria. With the release of specific enzymes is initiated in the stomach, the digestion of proteins.