It is very important to digest food in the stomach because it gives us strength when this digested food becomes blood. Remember food is digested in the food system. God has made this food system.
1. Teeth helps in digesting food
There are 32 teeth in our mouth, when we chew the food, the food gets divided into small pieces which are easy to digest, so to digest it well, we should chew the food a lot with our teeth.
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2. Tongue also helps in digesting food
The tongue does not only do the work of speaking, it also gives us knowledge food taste. When food is chewed by placing it on the top of the tongue, the saliva released from it and mixed in it, which turns the food into something that can be easily swallowed. Body makes 1.5 ltr saliva in a single day for helping digest 3 times food.
3. Esophagus Helps to digest food
As soon as the chewed food, it goes to the esophagus, the esophagus gets involved in further digestion of the food, it helps in carrying the food to the stomach, it gives an easy movement which is called peristalsis. As food travels down the esophagus, it constricts from behind the food and opens from the front, allowing food to enter the stomach even if we turn upside down.
4. Stomach also helps in the digestion of food.
As soon as the food reaches the stomach from the esophagus, this acidic juice mixes, it divides the food into small pieces.
5. The small intestine also helps in digesting food.
Some food has been digested. Further digestion will take place in the small intestine. This small intestine has 40 feets. There are three parts in this small intestine. In the first part, bile juice and pancreatic juice are included in the food coming from the stomach.
Bile breaks down the fat of the food to form fatty acids, which easily mix in the blood and gives strength and Pancreas juice breaks down the carbohydrates of the food and makes this glucose reach the blood cell because there are small shakes in the small intestine. |
Minerals of food are digested in the last part of the small intestine, from which elements of bone and blood are made.
6. large intestine helps in the digestion of food
Some other minerals digest in large intestine. Its length is 9-10 feet.
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