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The Comparison of Lipase Digestion with and without Bile Salts Aim The aim of this investigation is to see how the presence of bile salts, effects the rate at which lipase digestion takes place. Introduction The process that is taking place in this investigation is emulsification. Emulsification is the dispersal of tiny droplets of a water insoluble, substances, such as fats, into water. This occurs in lipid digestion. Lipid digestion begins in the stomach, where the enzyme lipase breaks triglycerides into fatty acids and glycerol. This process doesn't get very far in the stomach so the majority of fat digestion takes place in the duodenum and ileum, where pancreatic juice containing more lipases is added from the pancreas. Lipase, like all enzymes are globular proteins with their own specific catalytic action. Enzyme molecules have a complicated three-dimensional shape due to the particular way the amino acid chain that makes up the protein is...

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