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Ingestion of food - class-X
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Digestion is the breaking down of large food molecules into
smaller ones. The main purpose of this is to
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Provide many different types of molecules for absorption
💡 Explanation:
Most of our foods are complicated chemical structure.
In order to be absorbed and utilized by the body, they
must be broken down into relatively simple molecules.
The process by which the complex food materials are
changed to simple molecules is called digestion.