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what is the use of HCL in stomach
  • 8 answers

Arun Kirar 6 years ago

It kills the microbes which may enter our body through food..

Kumkum Sarswat 6 years ago

Provides acidic medium for the working of pepsin enzyme and also kills the germs.......

Ijhar Khan 6 years ago

Digestion in food molecules break

Priyanshu Nassa 6 years ago

It kills the germs which enter into our body along with food and it provide a acidic medium for the action of pepsin enzyme

Leepaxi Diwan? 6 years ago

It help to kill the bacteria of food which were present in food which we eat

Tushar Sindhi 6 years ago

It helps in body to kill the bacteria.

Gaurav Seth 6 years ago

 

The roles of HCL in our stomach are as follows :

1) It provides acidic nature .

2) It activates the enzyme pepsin .

3) It kills the germs that may have entered into our stomach with food. 

In other words,

Hydrochloric acid gets mixed with food and kills the bacteria present in food. It also destroys the structure of proteins so that the enzymes can digest them easily. Hydrochloric acid also creates acidic conditions necessary for the action of the enzyme pepsin. It activates pepsin to act on proteins.

Aadya Singh ? 6 years ago

It makes the food acidic in nature and kills the bacteria that may enter in stomach with the food...
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