🌟 What is the Digestive System?

The digestive system is a group of organs inside your body that helps you eat food, break it down, and turn it into energy. It also removes the waste that your body doesn't need.

Steps for the food to be digest

1. Mouth

The process begins in your mouth. You chew food using your teeth, and your saliva (spit) starts to break it down. This makes it easier to swallow.

2. Esophagus

After swallowing, the food goes down a long tube called the esophagus. It pushes the food into your stomach using wave-like movements.

3. Stomach

In the stomach, food gets mixed with strong juices that help break it into smaller parts. This mixture becomes a soft, liquid-like substance.

4. Small Intestine

The food then moves into the small intestine. This is where most of the digestion happens. The liver adds a liquid called bile to break down fat, and the pancreas adds enzymes to help digest food. The small intestine absorbs all the good nutrients from the food into your blood.

5. Large Intestine

Anything the body doesn’t need goes into the large intestine. Here, water is taken out, and the rest is turned into solid waste.

6. Rectum and Anus

The waste is stored in the rectum and then leaves your body through the anus when you go to the toilet.