Digestive System

Here you will find important information and detailed pictures on the digestive system.

Food provides us with fuel to live, energy to work and play and the raw materials to build new cells. All the different varieties of food we eat are broken down by our digestive system and transported to every part of our body by our circulatory system.

Our digestive system is a 9 metre long tube. The digestive process begins in the mouth, where the teeth and tongue break up the food after it has been softened with saliva. The food is then swallowed and travels down the oesophagus to the stomach.

• Enters the mouth Where the teeth grinds up the food
  
• Salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice.
  
• After that they it will have to pass through the Esophagus the food passage to the stomach.
  
• When it gets to the stomach it churns food and adds digestive juice.
  
• The liver and pancreas makes digestive juices for use in the small intestines.
  
• The gall bladder stores bile made in the liver.
  
• The duodenum would then receive bile and pancreatic juice.
  
• Then it goes down to the small intestine where it completes digestion; sends digested foods into the blood stream.
  
• Finally the digested food enters the large intestine where it stores and finally disposes of waste.

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