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a) Increases surface area of fats for purpose of digestion;
b)
- Destroys any ingested pathogens;
- Provides acidic media for protein digesting enzymes (pepsin);
- Converts/ activates pepsinogen inactive form to pepsin
marto answered the question on October 3, 2019 at 11:37
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