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Bile juice contains no digestive enzymes. Yet it is important for digestion. Why ?

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Inorganic salts present in bile juice remove the acidity of chyme. Enzymes of pancreatic juice become active in alkaline medium and perform digestion.
Organic salts present in bile juice convert fat globules into small globules by emulsification makes digestion easy.
Thus not containing digestive enzyme still it is important.
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