Chemical Digestion: The Origination Of The Digestive Process

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The origination of the digestive process occurs prior to the turkey sandwiches introduction in the mouth. The eyes and the nose are the beginning of the digestive process by seeing the food and smelling; this causes a response in this in the brain by nerves stimuli creating a visual and chemical sense. The visual stimulation causes the mouth to activate the salivary glands in preparation for the food. As we commencement to the consumption of a turkey sandwich, consisting of bread, turkey, lettuce, and cheese. Our eyes would see the sandwich, our nose would smell the aroma making our mouth water in anticipation of the food. With the mouthwatering the chemical digestion process has already begun with this secretion of saliva that contains the …show more content…

The sphincter at the conclusion of the stomach recognizes as the pyloric sphincter that controls the food from entering the small intestines. As the food enters the stomach, the chemical digestion continues by other enzymes, acid, and bile that released during this process. Different enzymes work on different food components. The stomach has three primary functions the storage of food, the mixing of food and controlled emptying of food into the small intestines. The chemical digestion occurrence within the stomach is mainly from the enzymes released in the stomach. Pepsin is the enzyme that begins the disintegrate of protein. The stomach also discharges gastric lipids that act on butterfat. Tributyrinase anatomizes the fat within the cheese and the turkey and bread of the sandwich into tributyrin. The tributyrin undergoes more chemical reaction transform it into glycerol and fatty acids. The turkey, cheese lettuce and bread are further broken down by pancreatic amylase digesting the starches breaking them down into disaccharides, lactose, sucrose, and maltose. These are further broken down into monosaccharides, lactose to glucose and galactose. Sucrase to broken down to glucose and fructose. Maltase breaks down to maltose to form two molecules of glucose. The protein in the turkey and cheese is broken down by Trypsin and polypeptides to dipeptides. A chemical reaction in body dilapidated …show more content…

The enzyme pancreas amylase causes the decomposition of starch. The starch during the chemical reaction broken down into disaccharides, lactase, sucrase, and maltase forms of pure sugar. Disaccharides are broken down to monosaccharides. Lactase changed into lactose, then into glucose and galactose sucrase changed sucrose into glucose and fructose these are all forms of sugars. These sugar may not all be utilized by the body. Maltase breaks down maltose 2 form molecules of glucose. Protein -stomach Pepcid and HCI break down proteins. These protein continue during the chemical reaction change to polypeptides. In the small intestines- Trypsin breaks down proteins and polypeptides to dipeptides. Then the dipeptides are changed into chymotrypsin decomposition of proteins and polypeptides to dipeptides. Carboxypeptidase breaks down polypeptides and dipeptides to amino acids. Aminopeptidase disintegrates of polypeptides & dipeptides to amino acids. Dipeptidase dissects of dipeptides to amino acids. Amino acids are more utilized by the digestive process; they are the building blocks of protein. Fats start the chemical digestive process in the mouth, this maybe because that many fats take longer to decompose. Lingual lipase has a minor role in beginning fat digestion. The stomach has an immense amount of chemical reaction going on at one time.

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