Substance generated in liver acts in digestion

Question

Name the substance generated in the liver which acts in the small intestine throughout digestion? How does that substance perform in the digestive process?

Answer 1

Bile, an emulsifier liquid, is made up by the liver and afterward stored in the gallbladder and discharged in the duodenum.

Bile is comprised of bile salts, cholesterol and the bile pigments. Bile salts are detergents, amphiphilic molecules, that is, molecules with a polar water-soluble part and a non-polar fat-soluble portion. This feature permits bile salts to surround fats within water-soluble micelles in a process termed emulsification for them to be in contact with intestinal lipases, enzymes that break fats into simpler glycerol and fatty acids.