What is the purpose of the large and small intestine?

Answer 1

The small intestine further breaks-down partly digested food using its enzymes and enzymes from the pancreas. It then absorbs the nutrients from these foods and passes the nutrients on to the blood capillaries.

Answer 2

The main work of digestion takes place in the small intestine, which is a remarkable 21 feet long. The small intestine breaks down fats, starches, and proteins into fatty acids, simple sugars, and amino acids, which it can then absorb.

The food you eat generally takes three to five hours to move through the small intestine. During this time, the food is bathed in digestive enzymes and juices that flow into the intestine through ducts from the liver and pancreas. Bile, produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, emulsifies fat, enabling its absorption. Enzymes secreted by the pancreas, such as trypsin, amylase, and lipase, help digest proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Once reduced to products the body can manage, the nutrients from digested food are absorbed by the intestine's thin lining and sent to cells throughout the body by way of the bloodstream and lymphatic system.

Food moves through the small intestine as if on a conveyor belt. The first step, after the stomach empties food through the pyloric sphincter, is the foot-long duodenum, located a few inches above the navel. Many minerals, such as iron and calcium, are absorbed in the duodenum. This is also where bile and pancreatic juices join the mix.

Answer 3

The purpose or job of the small intestine is to hold/digest food and to push it towards the large intestine or colon.

Answer 4

because one helps and the other one is just like people lazy but not in that way

Answer 5

Completing chemical digestion,absorption of nutrients