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Digestion SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Food p.106
▸ ▸ Eating
Digestion is when we eat food and it gets broken down pp.104—105
and used by our bodies to give us the energy we need to ▸ ▸ Human body
move and stay healthy. Your digestive system starts with p.130

your mouth and ends at your bottom. ▸ ▸ Lungs p.149
▸ ▸ Taste p.249

Esophagus

Food journey
Once it has been swallowed, food Stomach
passes into the stomach. From here, Inside the stomach,
it moves through the intestines and liquid chemicals are
added to the food
is then pushed out of the body. and churned around.

Small intestine
After passing
through the stomach,
the mushed-up food
liquid travels through
the small intestine. A large meal takes
one to three days
to pass through the
digestive system.

Digestive system

In the mouth
When we chew, food is broken and mixed
with saliva. Different teeth do different jobs.
When the chewed food is swallowed, it goes
down a tube called the esophagus.

Esophagus Sharp
incisors
cut food.

Large intestine Pointed
The waste parts of canines Flat molars
food stay in the large tear food. crush food.
intestine until they
are pushed out as poo.
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