What digests food in your stomach?!


Question: What digests food in your stomach?
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Hydrochloric acid helps to denature proteins and also activates the enzyme pepsinogen to become pepsin, which breaks down proteins into peptides.



Tons of enzymes, and the fact that your stomach is acidic helps digest it too.

Digestion isn't just in your stomach, it begins in your mouth and goes all through your esophagus, stomach, intestines, etc.



The stomach acid




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