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How does the stomach store food?
The stomach stores food by expanding its muscular walls to accommodate the incoming food. This allows the stomach to hold and mix the food with digestive enzymes and acids to begin the breakdown process. The stomach can stretch to hold around 1-1.5 liters of food on average.
Can your stomach handle food that weighs more than it?
Generally, a human stomach is capable of containing a quart or more of liquid and solid irrespective of the weight of the matter.
When you digest food the food goes through chemical changes.?
Its a chemical change. A physical change is a change which does not change the type of matter. The reactions in your stomach break down the matter into other substances.
How come when I am full I'm fat but when I am hungry I am thin?
Food, like all other matter in the universe, takes up space. When you eat food, the stomach expands to accommodate the space that the food takes up. The stomach slowly empties into the small intestine, which causes the stomach to slowly return to the size it was when you were hungry.
What is the function of a stomach of a fish?
The intestines function is to absorb as much water and nutrients from the food matter as it can
What is a J-shaped muscular sac that stores food and helps to digest food?
The stomach stretchy muscular sac holds food.
What churns and mixes food?
The stomach the stomach the stomach's job is to churn and mixed and digest food until it's a liquid.
What does the stomach do to your food?
The stomach breaks down your food. When you swallow your food, it lands in the stomach. It is broken down by stomach acids and moved into the intestines.
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.
Does the stomach use mechanical or chemical breakdown?
It uses both mechanical and chemical breakdown. The muscles of the stomach and the stoma (well a special opening that allows food to enter and to leave) push food into the intestines. Acid within the stomach and other no so famous chemicals break down the food to be small enough to be processed in the intestines and colons. Another device helps the stomach and uses chemical breakdown too: The gall bladder emits bile and the liver filters broken down matter and dangerous matter (such as alcohol, diseases, foreign matter (smoke, marijuana, poison, etc).
What do you call the food that goes down the esophagus?
Chewed up food in the esophagus and stomach = bolus, In the small intestine = chyme In the large instestine = waste / fecal matter/ feces
What does the stomach carry?
The esophagus carries boluses of food from the mouth to the stomach.
