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Food is primarily digested in?
Food is digested mostly in the small intestine. However, it starts to be digested when we start eating it in the mouth.
What is chyme?
Chyme is the semifliud mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
What is cud chewing?
partly digested food that cows and other ruminants return to the mouth, after it has passed into the first stomach, to chew again as an aid to digestion
Is cud a bad word?
No. Cud is a term used to describe a ruminent's partly digested food that is returned from the first stomach to the mouth for more chewing.
Organ were digested food is absorbed?
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.
Where does partly-digested food go after it leaves the stomach?
After leaving the stomach, partly-digested food enters the small intestine, where the majority of digestion and nutrient absorption occurs. The food, now called chyme, mixes with digestive enzymes and bile to further break down nutrients. As it moves through the small intestine, nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream, while the remaining waste continues into the large intestine for further processing.
What is the liquid part of the blood that carries nutrients from digested food?
The liquid part of the body that carries nutrients from the digested food is plasma.
What the main purpose of the small intestine?
The small intestine further breaks-down partly digested food using its enzymes and enzymes from the pancreas. It then absorbs the nutrients from these foods and passes the nutrients on to the blood capillaries.
What type of food is not digested by mouth and stomach but digested by enzyme?
corn
What is the name of the partly digested food mass that leaves the body?
Feces.
What is the mass of partly digested food called after passing from the stomach?
Bolus
Difference between bolus and chyme?
Bolus is a mass of chewed food mixed with saliva, ready to be swallowed, while chyme is the partially digested food that passes from the stomach into the small intestine for further digestion and absorption of nutrients.
