Digestive+Process

so there you are sitting at lunch, enjoying some grilled chicken pizza and a few orange wedges, when you finished you take a last drink and milk wipe your mouth and head to your next class. in a few minutes you thinking about the pizza lunch you just ate.but it still in your stomach -sort of like a science experiment that happens all the time! The mouth starts Everything Moving your digstive system started working even before you took the first bite of your pizza and the digestive system will be busy at work on your chewed-up lunch for the next few hours -or sometimes days depending upon what you eaten. this process called digetsition allows your body to get the nutrients and engery it needs from the food you eat. so lets find out what happening to that pizza orange and milk. Even before you eat when you small a tasty food see it or think about it digestion begins. ! Saliva or spit, begins to form in your mouth. 2 the saliva breaks doen the chemicals in the food a bit which helps out make the food mushy and easy to swallow. your tongue helps out pushing the food around while you chew with your teeth. 3 when you ready to swallow the tongue pushes a tiny bit of mushed -up food called a bolus toward the break of your throat and into the opening of your of your esophagus the second part of the digetsive tract. ON the way down the esophagus is like a strechy pipe that about 10 inches 25 centinmeters long. it moves food from the back of your throat to your stomach. but also at the back of your throat is your winpipe which allows air to come in and out of your body. 4 When you swallow a small ball of mushed -up food or liquids a speical flap called the epiglottis flops down over the opennig of your windpipe to make sure the food enters the esophagus and not the windpipe.started to cough and heard someone say that your drink went down the wrong way the person meant that it went down your windpipe by mistake. this happens when the epiglottis doesnt have enough time to flop down and you cough involuntairily without thinking about it to clear your windpipe. Once food has entered the esophages it doesnt just drop right into your stomach. instead squeeze the food through the esophages. This takes about 2 or 3 seconds. See you in the stomach 6 Food enters your stomach which is attched to the end of the esphagues is a strechy sack shaped like the letter J 1 to store the food you eaten 2 to break down the food into a liquidy mixture 3 to slowly emply that liqudly mixture into the small intestine the stomach is like a mixer churing and masing together all the small balls of foods that came down the esophagues into