DIGESTION PROCESS

FIRST OF ALL. Are you guys one of the food lovers out there? or food 'hunters' who loves to use #foodporn (if yes, give me 10 then) as the main hashtag in your instagram? did you know what will happen after that? did you know what happened to the oh-so-beautiful-decoration-of-food that you that you posted  once it's entered you mouth? did you know that your body system loves you very much and they didn't stopped working just because they want you to be healthy? and the most important is, did you know those tasty deserts will become the most disgusting thing when it came out from your body? *of course you know about it. what happened to me LoL?*

Okay...... oh sorry, before that, how are you guys been these few days? any improvement of knowledge regarding your digestive system? because today we we will talk about the most important 'thing' which is your DIGESTION PROCESS itself. basically, people always misunderstood the digestive system is only happened inside our stomach then goes to the anus and boommm *I don't want to mention it*. Now, let me clarify what actually the digestion process is all about.

DIGESTIVE ORGANS

1. MOUTH
- food begins its journey
- composed of many accessory organs:

• teeth - cut the food
• tongue - have taste buds to taste the food
• salivary glands - 3 types ( parotid gland, submandibular gland, sublingual gland), produce saliva to moisten and lubricate the food

2. PHARYNX

- funnel shaped connect the front and back of the mouth

- responsible for passing off chewed food from mouth to esophagus

3. ESOPHAGUS

- muscular tube connect pharynx and stomach

- carries chewed food

4. STOMACH

- storage tank for food so that the body has time to digest large meals

5. SMALL INTESTINE

- 3 parts (duodenum, jejunum, ileum)

- coiled like hose and inside full of many ridges & fold which used to maximize the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients

- 90% of all nutrients have been extracted from the food that entered it

6. LIVER

- produce bile

7. GALLBLADDER

- store and recycle excess bile from small intestine so that it can be reused for the digestion of subsequent meals

8. PANCREAS

- secrete digestive enzyme

9. LARGE INTESTINE

- 5 parts ( cecum, appendix, colon, rectum, anus)

- absorb water and contains many bacteria to breakdown the wastes to extract some small amount of nutrients

DIGESTION PROCESS

Digestion process occur in term of mechanical and chemical processes which is the breakdown of ingested food into small small small pieces by the bile that been secreted from the liver.

Mechanical digestion is when the teeth cut the food before swallowed, and the smooth muscle of the stomach and small intestine mix the food, as a result, the small pieces of the food dissolved and thoroughly mixed with the digestive enzymes.

While for the chemical digestion, the large carbohydrates, proteins, lipids (fat), and nucleic acids molecules in food are split into smaller molecules by hydrolysis (process breakdown of chemical compound by water).

that's all. easy right? and thanks for spending your time with us. *waving*