stomach, After being swallowed, food goes to this place where it is mixed with acid., smallintestine, a long folding tube inside the body attached to the stomach where nutrients in the food are absorbed, largeintestine, the tube after the small intestine where liquid is absorbed, teeth, These are used to chew food, nutrients, The good things in food, rectum, The place where waste is stored before it leaves the body, esophagus, The tube that connects the stomach to the mouth, saliva, A slippery liquid that makes food easy to swallow and helps break the food down, digestion, The process of breaking down food for use as energy and building materials for your body., liver, This produces juices (called bile) that go into the small intestine and help digest the fat in food, chew, Crush food with your teeth, peristalsis, successive waves of involuntary contraction passing along the walls of a hollow muscular structure (such as the esophagus or intestine) and forcing the contents onward, villi, Tiny hair-like projections that line the inside of the small intestine. They help absorb nutrients.

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