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Well you food is first chewed and softened in the mouth where saliva makes it water and slippery.
Then when you swallow it is moved to the stomach by muscular contractions of the gullet called peristalsis. Indeed you can swallow quite effectively even while standing on your head.
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Does food travel down your somach?
Yes.
What helps food particles travel into the blood?
the circulatory system
How food digested and what becomes of undigested particles?
Chewing helps break the food down in your mouth, and when you swallow the bits and pieces travel down the esophagus. Once it's in your stomach, your stomach churns it up some more by expanding and shrinking, until it travels farther down the body. The intestine collects the water from what is left, and the remains travel out the body as urine, feces, or carbon dioxide.
How many seconds does it take for food to travel down your trachea?
It takes about 4 to 10 seconds to travel down the tracehea because of the mucus keeps the food moist and it travels down in a slippery sliding motion.
What in the mouth helps to chemically digest food?
Saliva helps the mouth to break down the food, but what digests the food is fiber, and stomach acid.
What is a chemical that helps break down food?
Pepsin =)
What helps saliva break down food?
Teeth
What happened in buccal cavity?
food is put into the mouththe food is chewedfood broken down into piecessaliva mixes with the food(helps in breaking down of food)food is swallowed
Acid breaks down food were?
Acid breaks down the food in the stomach. Pepsin is the enzyme that breaks down the proteins from the food, in the stomach. Highly acidic pH helps to break down the food.
What is the break down of food?
It is digestion.The process used to break down food is called digestion. Digestion helps break down food so that the nutrients can be absorbed into the system.
What is the job amylase?
it helps to break down carbohydrates in our food.
What helps break down our food?
gall bladder and kidney
