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In the small intestine is where the breakdown of large food molecules occur and it also absorbs all of all the nutrients from these large molecules.

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Once the food has travelled through the small intestine, it goes to the large intestine where water absorbed.

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The food should be fully digested therefore it is chyme. Which is basically a liquid, all of the food molecules were broken down by the enzymes and acids in your stomach.

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the gallbladder relaxes

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as it passes through it dissolves

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Q: What happens to food when it reaches your small intestines?
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What happens to your food when it enters the stomach till it reaches large intestine?

It goes into the intestines, I believe that the intestines breaks up the food.


What happens when the small intestines is shortened during surgery?

The food will not be fully break down.


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.


How do the large intestines help the small intestines?

Every solid swallowed food, that was not digested by the time it reaches the end of the small intestine; is collected in the large intestine, which gets some water to help it pass through to the colon and out the body.


What is after the small intestine?

When the food reaches the small intestine the nutrients are absorbed into the blood through the intestine wall and then the food that was not digested goes to the large intestines where water is absorbed then it is excreted


How is food processed through the body?

Well, food goes down your trachia and in to your stomatch were it is then broken down and sent to your small intestines and then your large intestines untill, well, you know what happens next.:)


Does food release carbon or nitrogen?

when food is eaten it travels through the mouth, down the oesophagus into the stomach into the small intestines, then the large intestines, before it's finally in the gullet where the anus will help force the food out. although food goes through all of this, energy from the food called glucose will be sent by big amounts around the body, only when it reaches the intestines.


Why food goes in parts from stomach to small intestines?

The small intestines is an organ that takes in the nutrition from the food from the stomach, if all the food flows into the small intestines they would burst and you could suffer massive pains.


What do the stomach small intestines large intestines do?

your stomach and small intestines break food down and anything that gets to your large intestines exits your body through the anus


Does food rot in your intestines when digesting?

No, if there is a blockage in the intestines then there's a small chance that it would. But any food that's in the intestines gets digested and moved by water and the intestines naturally moving the food through your body


What are the small bumps in the small intestines that absorb food called?

Villi


What is the function of my small intestines?

Your small intestines absorb the food and nutrients as well as the water you take in. You can not survive without most of it.