Here in this example question, it asks which of the following statements is correct about the role of bile in lipid digestion? So, remember, when we talked about bile, we said it contained phospholipids as well as bile acids or salts, which help to emulsify or solubilize our globules into micelles. So, from that description, which of the following statements most matches up with that idea?
So here, bile contains bile acids that provide an acidic medium for lipid digestion. Now, remember, they're helping to solubilize or emulsify our globules into micelles. Bile enzymes make lipids hydrophilic by oxidation, never referred to this in terms of bile. Bile salts and lecithin in the bile emulsify lipids as a preparation for the subsequent hydrolysis. Yes. Remember, in step b of our lipid digestion, we're talking about biles. This is in preparation till we get to step c, where we have our pancreatic lipases getting involved to help create our hydrolysis products. So this would be true. Bile contains lipases that hydrolyze lipids to fatty acids and glycerol. No. That's not what is occurring there. We're changing our tags into monoacylglycerols. We're severing some ester linkages to get our hydrolysis product. So this would not be true. So the only statement here that is true would have to be option c.