Digestion and absorption of many carbs, especially simple carbs start in your mouth and typically end in your stomach.
Some more complex carbs are digested in small intestines. Almost all fats and proteins are digested and absorbed in the small intestine. In fact, the majority of absorption and digestion happens here.
Typically very minimal is absorbed and digested in the large intestine. The one thing the large intestine does really well is to absorb water. This is why your stool is exceptionally watery when you have diarrhea as it has passed through the large intestine much too quickly to absorb the appropriate amount of water.
The small intestine absorbs digested food into the blood.
Do you mean where is food digested? In the Stomach and Small/Large Intestine. Thanks.
Food moves into the large intestine after it has been digested by the small intestine.
The large intestine covers the digested food with juices and substances. The small intestine pulls nutrients out of the digested food.
The small intestine
The small intestine.
Through your small intestine
what absorbs the food in small antestine
Not all or less digested food will be absorbed by the body.
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.
There is a coating that protects the small intestine from the acid used for digesting food.
Mainly in Small intestine.