What is true about fats in the digestive tract?

a. bile from the stomach helps to break fat into small globules.
b. most of the fat digestion takes place in the large intestines
c. Micelles facilitate the digestion of fat into the mucosal cells of the large intestine.
d. absorption of fat soluble substances is dependent on presence of dietary fat.


Ans: d. absorption of fat soluble substances is dependent on presence of dietary fat.

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