Do you want to know how your body breaks your food up?

Read on to find out more…

By Logan and Mia

The job of your digestive system is to break the food that you eat into useful molecules. These molecules are used to give you energy make you grow. Also it makes your body function properly.

Teeth and saliva cut down your food into small bits

When your food goes down your oesophagus it lands into your stomach.

Quickly the Food particles begin to mix with stomach acids and enzymes to break down the food

Liver make bile which helps take good things out of your food .

It turns nutrients into things your body needs

From stomach to the small intestines this where most of the digesting take place.

This turns the waste food into faeces[ poo ] and carries it to the rectum.

holds the faeces until you're able to go toilet

In human beings the pancreas is soft and yellowish. It is about 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) long and about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) thick. It lies behind the stomach on the left side of the body.

When food enters the small intestine, the intestine releases hormones. These hormones cause the pancreas to produce digestive enzymes. The enzymes travel through tubes from the pancreas into the small intestine. There the enzymes help digest fats, starches, and proteins.

The pancreas also produces hormones. They are called insulin and glucagon. The job of these hormones is to control the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the blood. Glucose is the main source of energy for the body's cells