A gut feeling
- POSTED ON: 24 Oct, 2024
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- POSTED BY: Bhavya Venkatesh
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You’re super hungry and you wolf down some yummy snacks. Ever wondered what happens to the food after you swallow it? Whenever you take a bite of food and send it down, your body gets to work to break it down. This process is called digestion. When food is broken down, your body can get all the nutrients and energy it needs.
Here are the highlights in the process:
Mouth: When you chew food, it gets mixed with saliva and the digestion process begins.
Esophagus: This muscular tube moves food from the mouth to the stomach.
Stomach: Here, food is mixed with stomach acids and enzymes to further break it down.
Small intestine: Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream here. This organ has three sections: duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
Large intestine: In this section, water and salts are absorbed from the remaining undigested food, forming solid waste.
Anus: This is the final exit point for waste from the body.
Based on what you have just read, can you arrange the below parts of your body in the order in which food passes through them?