Write the role of HCL during digestion?
1 Answer
Consider the following explanation.
Explanation:
Now, this gastric juice is responsible for the digestion of protein contents in the food. If food containing more protein enters in the oral cavity, a signal is sent to stomach to secrete more of the gastric juice.
(What actually happens is that the mucus present in this juice prevents the pepsin from being activated when there is no food to be digested and also forms a lining on the stomach walls so that the acid may not digest them.)
When however, more proteinaceous food enters for digestion,