in the mouth, it's not really mechanical digestion, but called ingestion, as digestion means minerals are absorbed and assimilated.
The tongue is actually more involved with tasting and when you chew, it directs food between your teeth so that you can chew them(chewing is mechanical) to turn food into smaller pieces to be digested easier.
Digestion begins in the oral cavity where food is chewed with the teeth. Saliva is secreted in large amounts by three pairs of exocrine salivary glands (parotid, submandibular, and submaxillary) in the oral cavity, and is mixed with the chewed food by the tongue.
By breaking down the food and mixing it with saliva it allows the person to be able to swallow the food easier.
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in the mouth, it's not really mechanical digestion, but called ingestion, as digestion means minerals are absorbed and assimilated.
The tongue is actually more involved with tasting and when you chew, it directs food between your teeth so that you can chew them(chewing is mechanical) to turn food into smaller pieces to be digested easier.
Tongue helps the food to get under our teeth.
Tongue is involved in chemical digestion by producing enzymes.
Digestion begins in the oral cavity where food is chewed with the teeth. Saliva is secreted in large amounts by three pairs of exocrine salivary glands (parotid, submandibular, and submaxillary) in the oral cavity, and is mixed with the chewed food by the tongue.
By breaking down the food and mixing it with saliva it allows the person to be able to swallow the food easier.