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This film explores the complex process of human digestion, detailing how food is broken down into molecules by the digestive system. It follows the journey of food from the mouth, where it is chewed ...

Gail Bornhorst designed and built this machine to simulate human digestion, hoping to provide information that will help people decide which foods and preparation methods are best for their health.

Experts weigh in on the best supplementals to help to break down protein, fats, and carbohydrates into simpler compounds that ...

Understanding how the digestion process influences and alters the composition and structure of food is essential for food ...

Dietary fats must be digested into fatty acids and monoacylglycerols prior to absorption. In adults, colipase-dependent pancreatic triglyceride lipase (PTL) contributes significantly to fat digestion.

How do humans digest food? It’s a complicated question, with no easy answer. But in a food engineering lab at UC Davis, a mechanical digestive system is churning out information that may help solve ...