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What are the plant foods that are not digested in the stomach or the small intestine?
Plant foods that are not digested in the stomach or small intestine primarily include high-fiber foods, such as whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables. These foods contain cellulose and other non-starch polysaccharides that the human digestive system cannot break down. Instead, they pass into the large intestine, where some of the fiber is fermented by gut bacteria, contributing to digestive health. Additionally, certain seeds and nuts may also resist digestion due to their tough outer coatings.
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What substances in plant foods are not digested in the stomach or small intestine?
fiber.
Where is plant matter digested?
In your small intestine, a portion called the duodenum.
What organelle has a stomach for a nickname?
In a plant cell for example, the vacuole is a large inter cellular space where ingested materials are stored and digested. This organelle could be referred to as the stomach
Is an reticulated python an omnivore?
No, all snakes are obligate carnivores, and plants do not take up any part of their diets beyond the digested plant matter in their prey's stomach, which has been digested by the prey. The snake cannot digest the plant matter at all by itself.
Why do carnivores have a shorter small intestine?
Carnivores have a shorter small intestine because meat is more easily digested compared to plant-based foods. The shorter small intestine allows for quicker digestion of meat proteins, fats, and nutrients. Additionally, carnivores typically have a higher metabolic rate, so faster digestion is needed to efficiently process the nutrients from meat.
What does the small intestine do to the food after it passes through the stomach?
Once food is let into the small intestine, through a sphincter (valve) from the stomach, a process called peristalsis (the contracting and relaxing of muscles around the intestine) causes undigested food to be squeezed through the incredibly, long length of the small intestine (so named for its width, not length!). During the food's journey, nutrients that have not been absorbed in the stomach are slowly absorbed through the small intestine's lining, into the tiny capillaries which surround the winding tube, thus allowing nutrient uptake into the blood and circulatory system. Hence the huge length yet relatively thin form of the small intestine. This shape allows a maximum of surface area to allow undigested food to come in contact with the intestine's membrane. It is mostly nutrients from food, already partially digested in the stomach, which the s. intestine absorbs, though water is also importantly transferred to the circulatory system at this stage of digestion. The large intestine, along with the rectum, however, are responsible for the major extraction of remaining water. It is interesting to note that the appendix is a part (or adjunct) of the small intestine. Our herbivorous (plant eating) mammalian cousins have much longer appendixes, which serve a a digestion area for fibrous, plant materials. Herbivore's appendixes contain many bacteria which help to digest foods too fibrous for (near-appendixless), humans! The Koala needs an appendix of comparable length to the entire human small intestine, in order to digest Eucalyptus leaves!
What produces energy for plants and animal cells?
Plant cells use photosynthesis to produce ATP and carbohydrate. Animal cells depend on ingested carbohydrates, which are digested to sugars in the stomach and intestine and taken up into the blood stream. Once the cells take up the sugar they metabolise it to form ATP.
Is the stomach of a giraffe the same as a humans?
Giraffes, like cows, are ruminants. They have a four-compartment stomach which can pass partially digested food around to aid the digestion of plant matter. The final stomach compartment, called the abomasum, is the closest equivalent to the stomach of a monogastric animal such as a human.
How do berries disperse their seeds?
After the animals eat them, the seeds and the fruits will be in the stomach. The fruit gets digested but the seed cannot be digested. So when the animal goes and take a dump, the droppings left by the animal will be the fresh soil for the plant. and there goes another generation of another plant. :D
Where is a compound stomach found?
A compound stomach is found in animals with four chambers in their stomach, such as cows and sheep. It is specialized for digesting and fermenting plant material through a process of microbial breakdown before further digestion in the small intestine.
How is the stomach of a cow different from the stomach of a man?
A cow has a four-chambered stomach that digests plant matter more efficiently than a human's. Cows are called ruminantsbecause they are able to regurgitate partly digested material and rechew it again. A human, on the other hand, has a simple stomach, and is a part of the single-stomached group called monogastrics, which all have one simple stomach designed to digest protein and carbohydrates, not fibrous plant material.
What carbohydrate from plant foods cannot be digested by animals and passes through the digestive system?
Cellulose is a complex carbohydrate found in plant cell walls that cannot be digested by any mammal (including humans). This is because mammals lack the enzyme which breaks the β(1,4) linkages found within cellulose.
