Organs Of The Digestive System By The Digestive

Organs Of The Digestive System By The Digestive Group

Inside the mouth • Teeth and Saliva Glands Your front teeth is use for cutting the food into small pieces and the back is for munching it up. Saliva Glands produce saliva to let the food go to the Esophagus easier.

Traveling To The Stomach • Epiglottis and Esophagus The Epiglottis is at the top of the trachea as you can see, the Epiglottis blocks food from going in the Trachea when you are eating and instead, it makes it go into the Esophagus. There are muscles in the Esophagus, these muscles are use for pushing the food through the Esophagus, if you hang upside down, your food won’t go back to your mouth.

Processing • Liver and Gallbladder The Liver produces acid called Bile. The acid travels to the stomach to digest the food. The Gallbladder produces lots of fat digestion juice for the stomach to digest. It also stores up the bile when it is needed.

Traveling Pancreas and Stomach The pancreas produces digestive juices and help control blood sugar. If the pancreas does not work, the blood sugar level will get bigger and will have this disease called: Diabetes The stomach has acid in it, it digests the food that goes inside from the Esophagus.

Intestines • Small Intestine and Large Intestine On the side of the Small Intestine, there is something called Villi is used to absorb nutrients from the food. The Large Intestine takes away most of the water away. Out of 16 drop lets of water, it takes away 12.

Storing • Rectum • Rectum Finally, the rectum (which is connected to the large intestine) stores all the waste and waits until you wake up. If you sometimes have Diarrhea, your brain will wake you up and make you go to the toilet.

All together • The Digestive System And of course, the digestive system is for digesting food.

How Long It Takes For Food To Digest Large Intestine Stomach Small Intestine Esophagus Mouth Large Intestine : 48 hours Esophagus : 3 to 5 seconds Stomach : 7 hours Small Intestine : 9 hours Mouth : 5 seconds to 2 minutes