Parts of the Digestion System!

The Digestive System : -

Mouth:

1. Mechanical digestion – making food into small pieces easier digest

2. Saliva – chemical digestions carbohydrates sugar

Amylase rice and bread

Slimes, food slide down the esophagus

Esophagus:

Squeezes your food down to stomach.

Stomach:

1. Mechanical digestion – churning food

2. Stores food

3. Chemically digest protein – meat

- Makes acid to help break apart protein (meat)

- Enzyme pepsin

Small Intestine:

Fats – bile from liver/ enzyme lipase

Proteins - finished being digested – pepsin

Carbohydrates – finished being digested enzyme amylase

Digested food protein, carbohydrates, fats go into your blood

Pancreas:

1. Makes all of your digestive enzymes that go into the small intestine

2. Makes insulin which causes your cells to suck up the sugar in your blood

Liver:

1. Makes bile, which goes to the small intestine to help digest fat

2. Filters your blood

Large Intestine (Colon):

1. . Stores undigested waste food
2. Absorbs all your water