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First, the food goes into the mouth. You use your teeth to break it into smaller pieces. Salivary glands produce fluid that helps break the food down. The food then travels down the esophagus, to the stomach. The stomach churns the food and produces acid to help in digestion. It then goes into the 20-foot long small intestine, which has many vilii (finger-like things) poking out of the walls, which take the vitamins and nutrients from the food. Bile, a digestive juice made by the liver that was stored in the gall bladder also helps take the vitamins and nutrients out. Finally, it goes in the large intestine and the leftover water is absorbed, with help from microbes like Klebsiella, or bacteroides (basically bacteria). The food waste is now in the rectum or anus, which controls its release.

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