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What are the end products of digestion of fat and protein in humans?

Fat - Fatty acids and Glycerol

Protien - Amino acids

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fat= fatty acids or glycerol

protein= amino acids

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Fat - Fatty acids and Glycerol

Protien - Amino acids

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Proteins and fats are broken down in the digestive tract into the simple sugars, glucose, fructose, and galactose. The latter two can be converted by the body into glucose, which is distributed throughout the body via the bloodstream and is broken down into Carbon Dioxide and water in the mitochondria of cells.

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fat - fatty acids 

protien - amino acids 

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 fat - and even glycerol

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fat - glycerol

amino acids-protiens

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Digestion of some fats can begin in the mouth where lingual lipase breaks down some short chain lipids into diglycerides. The presence of fat in the small intestine produces hormones that stimulate the release of pancreatic lipase from the pancreas and bile from the liver for breakdown of fats into fatty acids. Complete digestion of one molecule of fat (atriglyceride) results in 3 fatty acid molecules and one glycerol molecule.

Protein digestion occurs in the stomach and duodenum in which 3 main enzymes, pepsin secreted by the stomach and trypsin and chymotrypsin secreted by the pancreas, break down food proteins into polypeptides that are then broken down by various exopeptidases and dipeptidases into amino acids. The digestive enzymes however are mostly secreted as their inactive precursors, the zymogens. For example, trypsin is secreted by pancreas in the form of trypsinogen, which is activated in the duodenum by enterokinase to form trypsin. Trypsin then cleaves proteins to smaller polypeptides.

 

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