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Most foods that are still alive - for example, a live salmon (although the average human mouth cannot fit such an animal) would be far faster than a very inanimate cupcake - this is because the salmon would most likely attempt to swim down the person's throat while as a cupcake (not being alive) would simply sit and wait as the body digests it.
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What moves food through to your stomach?
your large intestine and small intestine
What is the muscular contraction called that moves food through the stomach?
peristalsis
Where does food go after it passes the throat?
It goes through the pharynx (throat), esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine.After food passes through the throat, it moves into the esophagus. The esophagus is a muscular tube that brings food to the stomach.
From the stomach the food moves to the large intestine?
From the stomach, the food moves into the small intestines. After the small intestines the food moves into the large intestines.
What digestive your food and asorbs food?
Your stomach digests food and the food moves through your intsetines. Saliva breaks down food.
How could food reach the stomach?
How does blood enter the stomach to the heart, which route does it take?
What moves a bolus of food from the mouth to the stomach?
first it goes through a door called the epigladus, then goes through the rset of you esophagus then is dessoulved by your inzime juices.
What is the tube through which food moves via peristalsis but no digestion takes place?
The esophagus moves food via peristalsis, but no digestion occurs in the esophagus. It connects the mouth and stomach.
What moves food from the mouth to the stomach?
mucsles
What tastes food and moves it around in the mouth to be broken down by the teeth and saliva?
Food moves from the mouth to the stomach through the esophagus. A combination of gravity and small muscles in the esophagus causes the food to move.
What does peristalsis in the stomach do?
Peristalsis is a series of muscular contractions which moves food, in its various stages of digestion, through the alimentary canal.
Which two actions help to propel a bolus of food through the digestive tract?
Propulsion is the movement of food down the esophagus and peristalsis is the contractions in the stomach walls that moves food through the digestive tract.
