Describe what happens to a meal of oily beans and maize from the time of ingestion up to the time of absorption

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In the mouth starch in maize is digested by salivary amylase/ptyalin/diastase into maltose, the food is then chewed and mixed by teeth and the tongue, rolled into boluses by peristalsis it enters into the stomach via the cardiac sphincter.

In the stomach, gastric juice containing pepsinogen that is activated to pepsin digests proteins in the beans into shorter peptides. food is churned and allowed into the duodenum via the pyloric sphincter muscle.

In the duodenum bile juice secreted by the gall bladder emulsifies the oils in the beans into tiny oil droplets, pancreatic juice secreted by the pancrease contains pancreatic amylase that digests starch to maltose, pancreatic lipase that digests the oil in the beans to fatty acids and glycerol trypsin digests proteins into shorter peptides food enters into the ileum where succus entericus is secreted; it contains maltase enzyme that digests the maltose into glucose; that is absorbed, peptidase digests peptides into amino acids, lipase digests the remaining lipids (oil) into fatty acids and glycerol which is absorbed through the lacteals of the villi.

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