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(chewing), a form of mechanical digestion, and the wetting contact of saliva . saliva, a liquid secreted by the salivary glands , contains salivary amylase , an enzyme which starts the digestion of starch in the food; the saliva also contains mucus , which lubricates the food, and hydrogen carbonate
, which provides the ideal conditions of ph ( alkaline ) for amylase to work. after undergoing mastication and starch digestion, the food will be in the form of a small, round slurry mass called a bolus . it will then travel down the esophagus and into the stomach by the action of peristalsis . gastric...
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