Digestive System

Things to remember

• Digestion or the breaking down of food into small molecules that will be absorbed into our bloodstream begins when you put food in your mouth and begin to chew.
• When we swallow the food goes into a tube called the esophagus.
• The stomach is a sack that receives the food from the esophagus.
• The stomach makes digestive juices (acids and enzymes) that help to break our food down into a thick liquid or paste called chyme.
• The most important part of digestion takes place in the small intestine.
• The undigested food leaves the small intestine and then enters the large intestine.
• The solid waste then collects in the rectum at the end of the large intestine and will finally leave the body through an opening called the anus.