This liquid mixture will help dissolve food once it reaches the stomach and the process of digestion begins.
How You Make Gastric Juices
The food you chew and swallow is called a bolus.
Foveolar cells and mucous neck cells secrete bicarbonate andmucus.
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Parietal cells secrete hydrochloric acid.
Chief cells secrete pepsinogen.
Enteroendocrine cells secrete various hormones.
However, not all stomach glands contain every key in of cell.
Hydrochloric acid converts pepsinogen into pepsin and breaks various nutrients apart from the food you eat.
It also kills bacteria that comes along with your food.
Gastric lipaseis anotherdigestive enzymemade by the chief cells.
It helps break down short and medium chain fats.
Amylaseis also found in gastric juices, but it isn’t made by the stomach.
This enzyme comes from saliva and travels along with the bolus into the stomach.
That’s okay, though, because your small intestine introduces more amylase later on.
Intrinsic factoris secreted by parietal cells and is necessary for your body to absorbvitamin B-12.
This is essential for healthy nervous system function and blood cell production.
The liquid mixture is called chyme.
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