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What happens to food when you eat?
The food gets digested. Digestion is the process of food being broken down in your body, and turned into energy your body can use.
True or false Most animals have a cavity inside their body where food is broken down into substances the body can use?
true
What food you eat must be broken down by this system into nutrients your body cells can use?
The digestive system breaks food down into useful nutrients.
When food is broken into nutrients how does it gt to the cells of the body?
Food has nutrients in it- substances that give our body many important ...Beforenutrients can go to work foodmust be broken down so that they canpass into ourbody. ... Starches must be broken down into sugars before our body can use them. ...It is a component of haemoglobin, which carries oxygen to red blood cells.
Without digestive enzymes the meal is useless to the body is this statement valid?
Yes. In order for the body to use food, the food must be broken down into it's most basic elements. Complex carbohydrates are broken into simple carbohydrates, proteins are broken down into amino acids and fats are broken down into fatty acids. Some of this break down takes place because of the acids in your stomach, but enzymes in the stomach and mouth are required to further dismantle food into usable nutreints.
What is a type of energy held in food until broken down by the body?
Fat is energy stored for use. Once your body breaks the fat down it becomes usable energy.
Why is the excretory system so important to the human body system?
because food has to be broken down into a form your cells use.
Where does energy for the body come from?
The energy for your body usually comes from the foods that you eat. The calories in the food are broken down to carbohydrates to create energy so your body can use them.
What body system ingests food?
The digestive system ingests, digests and eliminates. We ingest when we eat food, the food is then digested (broken down) and what we can not use, we eliminate.
What is the prime source of the energy you get from your food?
Glucose. All types of food can be digested, or broken down, into simple sugars. And, the simplest sugar that your body can use for energy is glucose.
How does fats affect the body?
your body needs fat so that it can be broken down to use energy.
What nutrient is the first to be broken down and absorbed for energy use in the body?
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