Digestion

This post will be about digestion, what is in our digestive system and how our food is broken down.

First of all,i will explain what is the function of the body parts inside our digestive system.

1. Mouth
Our mouth produces saliva to help break our food down into smaller pieces with the help of our teeth. When the food has been chewed throughly enough or when the person eating swallows, our tongue curls backwards and rolls our food into a ball and pushes in down into our gullet.

2. Gullet
Our Gullet is a very long muscle which contracts and relaxes to push our food through to our stomach. The process of pushing the food down is that part in front of the food ball relaxes and the area behind the food ball contracts and pushes the food ball down the gullet where it eventually ends up in the sotmach.

3. Stomach
The stomach produces acid which breaks down the food particles into simple substance where the small intestine can absorb the substance for our body to use. Some food particlesmay not be broken down completely however.

4. The small intestine
When the broken down food reaches the small intestine most are absorbed into our bloodstream. The leftovers of what we have eaten will then go to the large intestine.

5. The large intestine
The large intestine is responsible of taking our waste products and food leftovers and sucking up all the water and mineral salts inside it so as to not waste any thing that would help our body.

6. Anus
The anus expels the waste products, hopefully into a toilet bowl.

This is our digestion and how it works. After reading this i hope you have learnt how our body digests the food we eat.