How do fungi digest food outside the body in saprophytic nutrition?

Correct answer: They release digestive juices outside

The governing concept is saprophytic, or extracellular, digestion. Fungi secrete digestive enzymes onto dead and decaying organic matter. These enzymes break complex substances into simpler, soluble molecules outside the fungal body; the hyphae then absorb those molecules. Fungi do not use lungs, make food from blood, or produce chlorophyll in leaves. Thus the release of digestive juices outside the body directly explains their mode of nutrition.