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Does the pancreas manufacture enzymes to digest all energy-yielding nutrients in diet?
-Trypsin and chymotrypsin break down proteins into smaller peptides and free amino acids.
-Amylase breaks down carbohydrates into simple sugars like glucose.
-Lipase breaks down fats, with the help of bile salts, into fatty acids and glycerol.
All three major energy yielding nutrients are broken down within the small intestine by this mechanism and transported within blood or by diffusion to all sites required.