I am going to tell you what happened to the taco that I ate on taco Tuesday. This is a very long process that starts with the taco itself. Digestion starts when you just look at food or smell it. In this process, your saliva glands produce saliva in your mouth. Saliva is an enzyme that breaks down your food before your stomach and other intestines do the heavy duty work. This process is called salvation. From this process, the food then goes into your mouth. In your mouth, there is both chemical digestion and mechanical digestion. Chemical digestion is when the food is broken down using chemicals such as you saliva or stomach acid. Mechanical digestion is when food is broken down physically such as chewing or the movement of your stomach…show more content… The stomach than uses its stomach acid to break down the bolus and the muscle around it to turn the bolus into a liquid-like substance. The stomach muscle is raped different ways so that you get a full rotation when digesting. The inside of your stomach is lined with mucus so that the stomach acid doesn't make a hole in your stomach. When this happens you get an ulcer. From your stomach, the liquid-like food substance goes through another sphincter and into your upper part of your small intestine called the…show more content… These parts are ascending colon, transverse colon, and descending colon. Attached to your large intestine is your appendix which serves no person at all. If the mass of food backs up into your appendix then you will get very sick and it could explode and that is not good, so if you got sick and the lower part of your intestine hurts you should go to the doctor and they will remove it for you. In the stomach, all the water gets absorbed. When you get diarrhea it is because you large intestine does not absorb all the water. From your large intestine the food that has no nutrients, and no water has gone through your whole body ends up in your
