The digestive system is the way food gets around in your body . There are five main parts that the food goes through before it comes out the exit.
The first thing that happens in the digestive system is saliva forms from the smell of the food you are about to put in your mouth. When the food is in your mouth the saliva helps the food dissolve to get ready to be chewed. The food gets chewed and goes into little particles of food.
Once the food is small enough the tongue pushes it down the oesophagus that is when you are swallowing it. The muscles in the throat push the food down until it gets to the stomach.
When the food is in the stomach it gets broken down even more than before. It happens by your stomach churning (breaks it down) until it turns into stomach acid.
After all that there is still more to happen. The small intestine is filled with millions of tiny villi that will suck up the nutrients that will go through your bloodstream. First the food goes through the small intestine then the large intestine. The large intestine absorbs the water out of the food left with liquid in it.
The exit is the way the waste gets out of your body. The exit is known as the bum and the waste is commonly known as poop.
Eating,swallowing,stomach,intestines,exit are the five parts the food goes through in the body that is the digestive system.
