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Science Y6 – Marvellous Me – Fascinating Body Facts
The human digestive tract is so long that if it were stretched vertically, it would measure 30 feet in length.
That is more than 5 times the length of an average adult.
A meal may take up to three days to pass through your digestive system. It spends about three hours in your
stomach.
Every day 3 gallons of digested food, liquids and digestive juices flow through the digestive system, but only 3
ounces are lost in faeces.
A cow has three stomachs. It chews its food once and lets it digest partially in one stomach. Then it
regurgitates the food, continuing the cycle two or more times until its cud is fully digested.
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