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They're absorbed so that you can actually gain some nutritional value from food you eat.
--Where are they absorbed? Nutrients are absorbed throughout the entire small intestine, with most of it happening in the duodenum and decreasing as you move further towards ileum. The entire small intestine functions to absorb nutrients from food, whereas the large intestine is more for resorption of salts and water and to remove wastes.
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Where does nutrients enters the blood?
Nutrients are absorbed by the blood vessel in the small intestines. Special cells in the small intestines are facilitate this movement.
What organ where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream?
Nutrients are absorbed throughout the digestive process. Specific nutrients are absorbed in the stomach and large intestines, but the majority of nutrients are absorbed in the small intestines.
In which part of the human digestive system are nutrients absorbed?
Small intestines.
When the chyme passes too quickly through the small intestines nutrients are what?
not absorbed
Where are nutrients mostly absorbed?
In the small intestines. Only a very few substances are absorbed in the stomach, alcohol is one such "nutrient".
Upon leaving the stomach food normally moves to where?
It moves to the small intestines where nutrients are absorbed.
What blood vessels pick up nutrients in the small intestine?
The blood vessel called the mesentery is usually rich in nutrients that is absorbed from the small intestines.
What is digested the small intestines?
Different types of nutrients are absorbed through small finger like structures called Villi.
What part of the digestion system are nutrient absorbed?
Nutrients are absorbed in the intestines.
What a long folded tube inside the body attached to the stomach where nutrients in the food are absorbed?
Small intestine is where 90% of nutrients are absorbed.
What percentage of alcohol is absorbed in the small intestines?
The percentage of alcohol that is absorbed through the small intestines is 80%. The remaining 20% of alcohol consumed is absorbed through the stomach.
For what purpose having very long small intestine?
The nutrients from your food are actually absorbed through the small intestines. The longer the intestines, the larger the surface space for those nutrients to be absorbed through. By the time you get to the large intestine, it is all just waste - so the large intestine is short because it is just to dump the garbage.
