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

   In  the  mouth;  starch  in  maize;  is  digested  by  salivary  amylase/ptyalin/diastase  into  maltose;  food is  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;  Max.  20  mks 

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