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The intestines remove all the nutrients from our food and they are absorbed through the intestinal walls.
Food is broken down or digested in the stomach but the nutrients are not absorbed in the stomach. Nutrients from digested food are primarily absorbed in the small intestine.
Food must be absorbed so the body can get all the nutrients from the food.
Your body delivers nutrients into the blood through the food that you eat. As food is broken down the nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream and are then carried to tissues and organs throughout the body.
The nutrients of food are absorbed at the intestine from where they reach the organs and tissues through the circulatory system.
The lumen is the cavity where digested food passes through and from where nutrients are absorbed, in the small intestine.
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Nutrients are absorbed from the small intestine the blood (red) vessel travel through.
The body absorbs the food nutrients through the digestive tracts. The walls of the small intestine take it in then will travel on the body via the bloodstream.
Small intestine is where 90% of nutrients are absorbed.
Small intestine is where 90% of nutrients are absorbed.
nutrients are absorbed in the digestive system