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Although bile juice has no digestive enzyme it is still considered to very important during digestion of food.Why?

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Bile juice has bile pigments such as bilrubin and bilverdin which helps in breakdown of large fat globules into smaller globules so that the pancreatic enzymes easily act on them. It serves also as the route of excretion for bilirubin, a byproduct of red blood cells recycled by the liver.

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