Following the end of the school year, you celebrate a great semester by gorging on pizza. Assuming that your pizza has several meat toppings, discuss where in the digestive tract those meat toppings will be digested.
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Saliva contains an enzyme called amylase that starts to break down carbohydrates, but it doesn't do much to the meat toppings. The chewed food then travels down the esophagus and into the stomach. Here, the stomach's gastric juices, which are highly acidic and Show more…
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