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What happens to food that is not digested in the small intestine?
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It is passed along to the large intestine, where water and other substances are absorbed. Helpful bacteria in the large intestine can break down undigested materials into soluble forms, including some important vitamins.
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What organ absorbs the digested food into the blood?
The small intestine absorbs digested food into the blood.
Where food is digested?
Do you mean where is food digested? In the Stomach and Small/Large Intestine. Thanks.
What happens to digested food after absorption?
Food is digested in the stomach, and this digestion continues to some degree in the small intestine. But it is largely in the small intestine that the nutrients are absorbed from the stream of digested materials. Anything not absorbed continues on to the large intestine for water extraction and further on to excrement.
Food moves into the large intestine when?
Food moves into the large intestine after it has been digested by the small intestine.
What are the frogs intestine and large intestines function?
The large intestine covers the digested food with juices and substances. The small intestine pulls nutrients out of the digested food.
Where does digested food enter your blood?
The small intestine
Where digested food goes into blood?
The small intestine.
How does digested food get cells?
Through your small intestine
What in the small intestine absorbs food?
what absorbs the food in small antestine
If the small intestine is shorter what will happen to the digested food?
Not all or less digested food will be absorbed by the body.
What part of the alimentary canal is digested food mainly absorbed?
Food is absorbed into the body in the small intestine. By the time food reaches the small intestine, it is very broken down, and the villi lining of the small intestine can absorb the food molecules into the bloodstream.
Why the walls of small intestine is not digested?
There is a coating that protects the small intestine from the acid used for digesting food.
