Everything you eat has to be chopped up the broken before the nutrients
or goodness in it can be taken into your blood and used by your body
cell to make energy. This chopping up and breaking down takes place in
your digestive system, or gut. Digestion begins with the first bite. In
your mouth the food is chopped up and chewed by your teeth and mixed
with saliva. Your tongue pushes and kneads the food into the ball. This
ball of food is then pushed down a short tube called the oesophagus to
your stomach. The food leaves to your stomach a little at a time and
goes into your small intestine. This is where most of the digestion
takes place. Undigested food continues on to large intestine, where
water is taken from it, before travelling to the last part of your
intestine, the rectum.
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