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How does butter in your food gets digested and absorbed?

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Butter is fatty substance, rich in fats or triglycerides. Digestion of butter will start in stomach and will be completed in small intestine. Gastric juice contains a weak lipolytic gastric lipase which hydrolyses only small amounts of fats.
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