2. Summary Breaks down all the food and drinks we eat. Mixes digestive juices with the food and it goes through a digestive track. Bigger molecules breaks into smaller molecules before it they are absorbed by blood. Eventually, they’ll leave the body by the anus.
3. Mouth It receives the food your eating It uses saliva to break it up.
4. Liver It is the largest gland in your body. One of its many functions is storage.
5. Stomach It breaks down the food even more. The food goes through the esophagus before it gets to the stomach.
6. Pancreas It does two functions. They are the endocrine and exocrine functions.
7. Large Intestine It is the bigger intestine. It absorbs water and electrolytes.
8. Small Intestine It finishes the digestion of food. It gathers the nutrients from the food.
9. Rectum It continues from the sigmoid colon. It then continues through the anal canal.
