The Digestive system is the way that your body processes food into faeces (poo).It is made up of six parts.
The first part of your digestive system is your mouth. Your mouth chews your food. It creates a liquid called saliva that helps break down the food in your mouth. The mouth swallows food into your oesophagus.
The second part of your digestive system is your oesophagus. It pushes your chewed up food down into your stomach.
Your stomach is the third part of your digestive system it breaks down food even more and creates a gas that helps break it down.
The fourth part of your digestive system is called your small intestine and it takes the nutrients out of it and sends it into your bloodstream.
The fifth part of your digestive system is your large intestine. The large intestine takes the water out of your food and turns the rest into faeces.
The last part of the digestive system is the rectum. The rectum is where all of the faeces is stored and where the faeces leaves the body through the anus.
The digestive process takes around 33 hours to complete
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By Nancy
