Digestion is the process of breaking down food into nutrients which the body uses for energy growth and cell repair.It consists mainly of a long muscular tube called the digestive system.This started the mouth continues via esophagus and stomach to the intestines and ends at the anus.The system also relies on the pancreas, lives and gallbladder to help digest the food.

Digestive System (Digestion)

esophagus- is a long muscular tube that connects the pharynx to the throat to the stomach.stomach is a large j shape organ at the end of the esophagus on the left side of the bodyThe capacity of stomach is 50ml when empty and can expand.small intestine have 7 meters long , while the large intestine is 1.5 meter long.large intestine is a large coil tube attached to the end of the small intestine.

Continuous of Digestive System

So there you are, sitting at lunch, enjoying some grilled-chicken pizza and a few
 orange wedges. When you're finished, you take a last drink of milk, wipe your mouth,
 and head to your next class. In a few minutes you're thinking about the capital of
 Oregon or your science fair project. You've completely forgotten about that pizza
 lunch you just ate. But it's still in your stomach — sort of like a science
 experiment that happens all the time!<h3>The Mouth Starts Everything Moving</h3>Your digestive (say: dye-JES-tiv) system started
 working even before you took the first bite of your pizza. And the digestive system
 will be busy at work on your chewed-up lunch for the next few hours — or sometimes
 days, depending upon what you've eaten. This process, called digestion,
 allows your body to get the nutrients and energy it needs from the food you eat. So
 let's find out what's happening to that pizza, orange, and milk.<div dir="ltr">1/19</div><img src="https://familysurvey.org/misc/javascript/js_apps/kh-slideshows/bodybasics-flash-digestive-en/DigestiveSystem-enSS-1.jpg" alt="" width="556" height="417"><h2>The Digestive System</h2><div dir="ltr">The digestive system consists of the parts of the body that work together to turn food and liquids into the building blocks and fuel that the body needs. Click through this slideshow to learn more about the digestive system.</div><div><button>Print this slide</button></div><div>© 2021 The Nemours Foundation/KidsHealth. All rights reserved.</div>Even before you eat, when you smell a tasty food, see it, or think about it, digestion
 begins. Saliva (say: suh-LYE-vuh), or <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/spit.html" dir="ltr">spit</a>,
 begins to form in your mouth.When you do eat, the saliva breaks down the chemicals in the food a bit, which
 helps make the food mushy and easy to swallow. Your tongue helps out, pushing the
 food around while you chew with your teeth. When you're ready to swallow, the tongue
 pushes a tiny bit of mushed-up food called a bolus (say: BO-luss)
 toward the back of your throat and into the opening of your esophagus, the second
 part of the digestive tract.<h3>On the Way Down</h3>The esophagus (say: ih-SOF-eh-guss) is like a stretchy pipe that's
 about 10 inches (25 centimeters) long. It moves food from the back of your throat
 to your stomach. But also at the back of your throat is your windpipe, which allows
 air to come in and out of your body. When you swallow a small ball of mushed-up food
 or liquids, a special flap called the epiglottis (say: ep-ih-GLOT-iss) flops down
 over the opening of your windpipe to make sure the food enters the esophagus and not
 the windpipe.If you've ever drunk something too fast, started to cough, and heard someone say
 that your drink "went down the wrong way," the person meant that it went down your
 windpipe by mistake. This happens when the epiglottis doesn't have enough time to
 flop down, and you cough involuntarily (without thinking about it) to clear your windpipe.Once food has entered the esophagus, it doesn't just drop right into your stomach.
 Instead, muscles in the walls of the esophagus move in a wavy way to slowly squeeze
 the food through the esophagus. This takes about 2 or 3 seconds.<h3>See You in the Stomach</h3>Your stomach, which is attached to the end of the esophagus, is a stretchy sack
 shaped like the letter J. It has three important jobs:<OL><LI>to store the food you've eaten</LI><LI>to break down the food into a liquidy mixture</LI><LI>to slowly empty that liquidy mixture into the small intestine</LI></OL>The stomach is like a mixer, churning and mashing together all the small balls
 of food that came down the esophagus into smaller and smaller pieces. It does this
 with help from the strong muscles in the walls of the stomach and gastric
 (say: GAS-trik) juices that also come from the stomach's walls. In addition to breaking
 down food, gastric juices also help kill bacteria that might be in the eaten food.Onward to the small intestine!<h3>22 Feet Isn't Small at All</h3>The small intestine (say: in-TESS-tin) is a long tube that's about
 1½ inches to 2 inches (about 3.5 to 5 centimeters) around, and it's packed
 inside you beneath your stomach. If you stretched out an adult's small intestine,
 it would be about 22 feet long (6.7 meters) — that's like 22 notebooks lined
 up end to end, all in a row!The small intestine breaks down the food mixture even more so your body can absorb
 all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/carb.html" dir="ltr">carbohydrates</a>,
 and fats. The grilled&nbsp;chicken on your pizza is full of proteins — and a
 little fat — and the small intestine can help extract them with a little help
 from three friends: the <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/word-pancreas.html" dir="ltr">pancreas</a> (say: PAN-kree-uss),
 liver, and gallbladder.Those organs send different juices to the first part of the small intestine. These
 juices help to digest food and allow the body to absorb nutrients. The pancreas makes
 juices that help the body digest fats and protein. A juice from the liver called bile
 helps to absorb fats into the bloodstream. And the gallbladder serves as a warehouse
 for bile, storing it until the body needs it.Your food may spend as long as 4 hours in the small intestine and will become a
 very thin, watery mixture. It's time well spent because, at the end of the journey,
 the nutrients from your pizza, orange, and milk can pass from the intestine into the
 blood. Once in the blood, your body is closer to benefiting from the complex carbohydrates
 in the pizza crust, the vitamin C in your orange, the protein in the chicken, and
 the calcium in your milk.Next stop for these nutrients: the liver! And the leftover waste — parts
 of the food that your body can't use — goes on to the large intestine.<h3>Love Your Liver</h3>The nutrient-rich blood comes directly to the <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/liver.html" dir="ltr">liver</a>
 for processing. The liver filters out harmful substances or wastes, turning some of
 the waste into more bile. The liver even helps figure out how many nutrients will
 go to the rest of the body, and how many will stay behind in storage. For example,
 the liver stores certain <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/vitamin.html" dir="ltr">vitamins</a> and a type of
 sugar your body uses for energy.<h3>That's One Large Intestine</h3>At 3 or 4 inches around (about 7 to 10 centimeters), the large intestine is fatter
 than the small intestine and it's almost the last stop on the digestive tract. Like
 the small intestine, it is packed into the body, and would measure 5 feet (about 1.5
 meters) long if you spread it out.The large intestine has a tiny tube with a closed end coming off it called the
 appendix (say: uh-PEN-dix). It's part of the digestive tract, but
 it doesn't seem to do anything, though it can cause big problems because it sometimes
 gets infected and needs to be removed.Like we mentioned, after most of the nutrients are removed from the food mixture
 there is waste left over — stuff your body can't use. This stuff needs to be
 passed out of the body. Can you guess where it ends up? Well, here's a hint: It goes
 out with a flush.Before it goes, it passes through the part of the large intestine called the colon
 (say: CO-lun), which is where the body gets its last chance to absorb the water and
 some minerals into the blood. As the water leaves the waste product, what's left gets
 harder and harder as it keeps moving along, until it becomes a solid. Yep, it's <a dir="ltr">poop</a> (also called stool or a bowel movement).The large intestine pushes the poop into the rectum (say: REK-tum),
 the very last stop on the digestive tract. The solid waste stays here until you are
 ready to go to the bathroom. When you go to the bathroom, you are getting rid of this
 solid waste by pushing it through the anus (say: AY-nus). There's
 the flush we were talking about!<h3>Dig That Digestive System</h3>You can help your digestive system by <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/water.html" dir="ltr">drinking water</a>
 and eating a healthy diet that includes foods rich in fiber. High-fiber foods, like
 fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, make it easier for poop to pass through your
 system.The digestive system is a pretty important part of your body. Without it, you couldn't
 get the nutrients you need to grow properly and stay healthy. And next time you sit
 down to lunch, you'll know where your food goes — from start to finish!

The digestive system breaks down the food you eat. Learn how in this article for kids.

food

Food

So there you are, sitting at lunch, enjoying some grilled-chicken pizza and a few orange wedges. When you're finished, you take a last drink of milk, wipe your mouth, and head to your next class. In a few minutes you're thinking about the capital of Oregon or your science fair project. You've completely forgotten about that pizza lunch you just ate. But it's still in your stomach — sort of like a science experiment that happens all the time!

Your digestive (say: dye-JES-tiv) system started working even before you took the first bite of your pizza. And the digestive system will be busy at work on your chewed-up lunch for the next few hours — or sometimes days, depending upon what you've eaten. This process, called digestion , allows your body to get the nutrients and energy it needs from the food you eat. So let's find out what's happening to that pizza, orange, and milk.

Even before you eat, when you smell a tasty food, see it, or think about it, digestion begins. Saliva (say: suh-LYE-vuh), or <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/spit.html">spit </a>, begins to form in your mouth.

When you do eat, the saliva breaks down the chemicals in the food a bit, which helps make the food mushy and easy to swallow. Your tongue helps out, pushing the food around while you chew with your teeth. When you're ready to swallow, the tongue pushes a tiny bit of mushed-up food called a bolus (say: BO-luss) toward the back of your throat and into the opening of your esophagus, the second part of the digestive tract.

The esophagus (say: ih-SOF-eh-guss) is like a stretchy pipe that's about 10 inches (25 centimeters) long. It moves food from the back of your throat to your stomach. But also at the back of your throat is your windpipe, which allows air to come in and out of your body. When you swallow a small ball of mushed-up food or liquids, a special flap called the epiglottis (say: ep-ih-GLOT-iss) flops down over the opening of your windpipe to make sure the food enters the esophagus and not the windpipe.

If you've ever drunk something too fast, started to cough, and heard someone say that your drink "went down the wrong way," the person meant that it went down your windpipe by mistake. This happens when the epiglottis doesn't have enough time to flop down, and you cough involuntarily (without thinking about it) to clear your windpipe.

Once food has entered the esophagus, it doesn't just drop right into your stomach. Instead, muscles in the walls of the esophagus move in a wavy way to slowly squeeze the food through the esophagus. This takes about 2 or 3 seconds.

Your stomach, which is attached to the end of the esophagus, is a stretchy sack shaped like the letter J. It has three important jobs:

<ol><li>to store the food you've eaten </li><li>to break down the food into a liquidy mixture </li><li>to slowly empty that liquidy mixture into the small intestine </li> </ol>

The stomach is like a mixer, churning and mashing together all the small balls of food that came down the esophagus into smaller and smaller pieces. It does this with help from the strong muscles in the walls of the stomach and gastric (say: GAS-trik) juices that also come from the stomach's walls. In addition to breaking down food, gastric juices also help kill bacteria that might be in the eaten food.

The small intestine (say: in-TESS-tin) is a long tube that's about 1½ inches to 2 inches (about 3.5 to 5 centimeters) around, and it's packed inside you beneath your stomach. If you stretched out an adult's small intestine, it would be about 22 feet long (6.7 meters) — that's like 22 notebooks lined up end to end, all in a row!

The small intestine breaks down the food mixture even more so your body can absorb all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/carb.html">carbohydrates </a>, and fats. The grilled chicken on your pizza is full of proteins — and a little fat — and the small intestine can help extract them with a little help from three friends: the <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/word-pancreas.html">pancreas </a>(say: PAN-kree-uss), liver, and gallbladder.

Those organs send different juices to the first part of the small intestine. These juices help to digest food and allow the body to absorb nutrients. The pancreas makes juices that help the body digest fats and protein. A juice from the liver called bile helps to absorb fats into the bloodstream. And the gallbladder serves as a warehouse for bile, storing it until the body needs it.

Your food may spend as long as 4 hours in the small intestine and will become a very thin, watery mixture. It's time well spent because, at the end of the journey, the nutrients from your pizza, orange, and milk can pass from the intestine into the blood. Once in the blood, your body is closer to benefiting from the complex carbohydrates in the pizza crust, the vitamin C in your orange, the protein in the chicken, and the calcium in your milk.

Next stop for these nutrients: the liver! And the leftover waste — parts of the food that your body can't use — goes on to the large intestine.

The nutrient-rich blood comes directly to the <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/liver.html">liver </a>for processing. The liver filters out harmful substances or wastes, turning some of the waste into more bile. The liver even helps figure out how many nutrients will go to the rest of the body, and how many will stay behind in storage. For example, the liver stores certain <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/vitamin.html">vitamins </a>and a type of sugar your body uses for energy.

At 3 or 4 inches around (about 7 to 10 centimeters), the large intestine is fatter than the small intestine and it's almost the last stop on the digestive tract. Like the small intestine, it is packed into the body, and would measure 5 feet (about 1.5 meters) long if you spread it out.

The large intestine has a tiny tube with a closed end coming off it called the appendix (say: uh-PEN-dix). It's part of the digestive tract, but it doesn't seem to do anything, though it can cause big problems because it sometimes gets infected and needs to be removed.

Like we mentioned, after most of the nutrients are removed from the food mixture there is waste left over — stuff your body can't use. This stuff needs to be passed out of the body. Can you guess where it ends up? Well, here's a hint: It goes out with a flush.

Before it goes, it passes through the part of the large intestine called the colon (say: CO-lun), which is where the body gets its last chance to absorb the water and some minerals into the blood. As the water leaves the waste product, what's left gets harder and harder as it keeps moving along, until it becomes a solid. Yep, it's <a>poop </a>(also called stool or a bowel movement).

The large intestine pushes the poop into the rectum (say: REK-tum), the very last stop on the digestive tract. The solid waste stays here until you are ready to go to the bathroom. When you go to the bathroom, you are getting rid of this solid waste by pushing it through the anus (say: AY-nus). There's the flush we were talking about!

You can help your digestive system by <a href="https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/water.html">drinking water </a>and eating a healthy diet that includes foods rich in fiber. High-fiber foods, like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, make it easier for poop to pass through your system.

The digestive system is a pretty important part of your body. Without it, you couldn't get the nutrients you need to grow properly and stay healthy. And next time you sit down to lunch, you'll know where your food goes — from start to finish!

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