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The food is broken down into smaller pieces by mechanically 'churning' it. This is done by the muscular wall of the stomach. As it contracts and relaxes, it causes the food particles to break down. This increases thesurface area of food so that more surface is available to the enzymes for digestion and thus, the rate of digestion is faster. This is the physical digestion that happens in the stomach.
The stomach also releases gastric juices into the food. These are also thoroughly mixed with the food particles by the churning movement of the stomach wall. These gastric juices contain pepsinogen which is activated by the hydrochloric acid present in the stomach to pepsin. Pepsin is a protease and helps in breaking down proteins into amino acids. Thus, stomach is also the site for protein digestion. This is how stomach brings about chemical digestion./
After the food is thoroughly mixed and churned, the result is a liquidmixture called 'chyme'. Chyme is then released into the small intestine in short bursts. It may be temporarily stored in the stomach as the amount that has passed on to the small intestines is being digested.
The stomach also absorbs some food stuffs through its walls and into thee blood stream like alcohol, aspirin and glucose.
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What happens to the food you have eaten as it goes to the stomach?
it goes in to your esophagus and is store in the stomach in several hours.
What happens to food as it passes through your esophagus?
it goes to your stomach
What happens to food when it passes through the esophagus?
It goes into the stomach and gets digested.
What happens to your food when it enters the stomach till it reaches large intestine?
It goes into the intestines, I believe that the intestines breaks up the food.
What happens in pharynx?
The muscles in the esophagus move the food down into the stomach.
What happens to the milk when you drink it?
it goes in your stomach
What happens to food when it is in the stomach?
It si dissovled by stomach acid.
How does digested food get to cells?
Well, the food goes to your stomach and into your bladder to get to your cells.
After being swallowed food goes in this place where it is mixed with acid?
After being swallowed, food goes into the stomach where it is mixed with stomach acid. The stomach acid helps to break down the food into smaller particles for digestion and absorption of nutrients.
How does food is digested?
it goes through the stomach
How Food goes down the to the stomach?
first it goes down your stomach and goes down different tubes to make you go to toilet
Does food reach the small intestine before it reaches the stomach?
No. Food goes to the stomach and then to the small intestine.
