When we eat, food is mixed with saliva in the mouth and swallowed down the esophagus into the stomach. In the stomach, gastric juices mix with the food before it passes into the small intestine where juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine further break it down into nutrients that are absorbed into the bloodstream and waste that moves to the large intestine and leaves through the anus.
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When we eat, the food The food leaves the
is mixed in the mouth mouth and goes down
with saliva. Then we the oesophagus to
swallow it. the stomach
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In the stomach food is mixed with gastric juices. Then
it passes into the small intestine
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The food in the small intestine is mixed with juices
from the intestine, pancreas and the liver. This mix
becomes nutrients that the body needs and other
substances thatthe body doesn’t need.
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NUTRIENTS OTHER SUBSTANCES
The nutrients travel into The other substances tha
the blood through the tthe body doesn’t need go on
small to the large intestine and
intestine(absorption) end up in the anus