Digestion Parts

Mouth;

Mechanical or physical digestion – chewing food and breaking into small pieces.

Saliva - Chemical digestion and breaking down carbohydrate.

- Slimes your food so it slides food down your esophagus

Esophagus

- Squeezes the food down to the stomach.

Stomach

- Stores food

- Mixes food (Mechanical digestion)

- Makes acid in order to help break down protein

Enzyme pepsin – Breaks down protein

- Ph-2 in your stomach when you get food inside.

Small intestine- Fats (lipids)

- Carbohydrates

- Proteins are all finished getting digested.

All of these are observed into your blood (small intestine)

Pancreas;

Makes all the important enzymes that go to small intestine to digest fats, carbohydrates and proteins.

Makes insulin in order for your body cells to suck up sugar (glucose).

Liver; greenish yellow

-It makes bile which is stomach in your gall bladder and sent to your small intestine.

- It filters the blood from your small intestine.

- Stores sugar so it can be released.