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Eating and drinking
You need more than oxygen to stay alive. You need energy and nutrients, too.
These come from the food you eat, which first has to be broken down as it travels through your digestive system. This is a long tube about the length of a bus!
First you crush food with your teeth inside your mouth, so you can swallow it.
Oesophagus
Special juices called stomach acid
Small intestine
1. Oesophagus 2. Stomach 3. Liver 4. Pancreas 5. Small intestine 6. Large intestine
Then it travels down a tube, called an oesophagus, into your stomach.
Inside your stomach, strong muscles and special juices turn the food to mush.
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The food then goes into the small intestine, where all the useful parts (nutrients) pass into your blood. The blood takes the nutrients to your liver where some of them are stored.
Your pancreas makes special chemicals to help your body to digest food and to use and store sugars.
Crunch!