Chemical digestion uses enzymes and other chemicals to break the bonds in food. Mechanical digestion is basically the teeth grinding the food into physically smaller pieces.
Mechanical digestive processes include chewing and peristalsis - that is, the muscular movement of the gut to force food down.
Chemical digestion on the other hand usually involves enzymes breaking...
Mechanical digestion refers to the actual grinding / physical digestion in your mouth where your teeth cut and mash up your food. Chemical digestion refers to the enzymes that break up the food...
mechanical digestion - chewing, mixing, churning chemical digestion - breakdown of fat, carbohydrate and proteins by specific enzymes (lipases, amylases, and proteinases respectively)
The digestion process begins in the mouth. Chewing your food is a mechanical form of digestion. The saliva in your mouth begins to chemically break down your food, which is chemical digestion.