Digestive System

Digestive System

Did you know that it take 8 whole hours for food to go through your digestive system?  
Today, I will be telling you how your digestive system works.

Your digestive system works in a process. It starts with your mouth, then you stomach,
small intestine then your large intestine.

When you first eat food, it all starts by chewing with your mouth. The food that you have
just ate then goes into your esophagus (a scientific word for food pipe) and ends up in
your stomach.

Your stomach has acid in it. The acid helps kill the bacteria so we don”t get sick. The
stomach has a thick mucus so the acid doesn’t harm the stomach.

Next is your small intestine. Do you know what your small intestine does? In your small
intestine, there are small fingers called villi. It breaks the food into smaller pieces and gets
absorbed by the blood.

Large intestine is where all your food waste turns into feces (poo). The liquid in the food
waste gets absorbed into the blood and cleans it to make urine.

Your digestive system is a very important system for your body.