ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Once food is swallowed, it passes through the esophagus into the stomach, the pink organ shown here above the yellow pancreas. A large, muscular chamber, the stomach produces digestive juices like pepsin, lipase, and hydrochloric acid, which digest and dissolve stomach contents.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stomach. Glands in your stomach lining make stomach acid and enzymes that break down food.

Detailed explanation-3: -The stomach muscles churn and mix the food with digestive juices that have acids and enzymes. These juices help break up food into much smaller pieces. By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been turned into a thick liquid called chyme (kime).

Detailed explanation-4: -The stomach is like a mixer, churning and mashing together all the small balls of food that came down the esophagus into smaller and smaller pieces. It does this with help from the strong muscles in the walls of the stomach and gastric (say: GAS-trik) juices that also come from the stomach’s walls.

Detailed explanation-5: -Solid organs Enzymes convert dissolved food (from the stomach) into energy the body can use. These organs-liver, gallbladder, and pancreas-perform many functions that aid digestion, as well as maintain a regulated energy flow to the rest of the body.