Row, row, row the food!

Have you ever wonder how the food is being processed in your body and provide you the nutrients, and how all the organs incorporate with each other to perform the digestive function?

Let's us reveal it for you!

Mouth
-Digestion begins with chewing
-Food become smaller particles (the force of chewing has churned the food from the bigger chunk into smaller pieces)
-Saliva breaks down carbohydrates further with liquid enzymes (amylase)
-It moistens and lubricates the food particles, allows them dissolve and reacts with the chemoreceptors in the mouth giving rise to the sensation of taste
-Then, the tongue compact it into bolus and pushes to the throat for swallowing.

Esophagus

-In fact, food doesn't just fall down a pipe into your stomach

-Peristaltic muscular waves force the bolus down the esophagus toward the stomach.

Stomach

-Stomach’s muscle twist, turn and churn the food
-Gastric acid produced contains enzymes that begin digestion of protein.

-The chyme is form and then passes through into the small intestine. 

Small intestine

-Bile, pancreatic enzymes, and other digestive enzymes released

-Bile breaks the fat into smaller globules

-Pancreatic enzymes involve in digestion of carbohydrates and fats

-Other enzymes continue the digestion of protein.

-These three basic nutrients are completely digested, absorb into villi and carry to the body cells. 

Large intestine

-Unabsorbed materials move into the large intestine.

-Some of water and electrolytes (salts) are removed from the food.

-Many microbes present help in the digestion.

-Food travels from ascending colon to transverse colon, goes down descending colon, and then through the sigmoid colon.

Lastly, remaining solid waste is then stored in the rectum until it is excreted via the anus.

Finally, we have know how is our food being transported and excreted out from body. It is so amazing that our body can perform all the activities.

Take a short break and we will back to you with something are more informative!

*For the complete animation, you can click on this link :-http://kitses.com/animation/swfs/digestion.swf and experience more about the digestive system.*