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When you eat food, the stomach turns that food into chyme, it is so important because chyme is what the small intestines digest. Think about it, if you ate a big piece of chicken and it wasn't turned into chyme, your intestines wouldn't be able to handle it.

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Partially digested food is called?

if the food is already has gone through the stomach then it is chyme


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'Chyme' is pronounced as 'kime'.


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