GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Digestion. Digestion is the process the body uses to break down food into nutrients. The body uses the nutrients for energy, growth, and cell repair.

Detailed explanation-2: -The five steps of nutrition are ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion. Ingestion is the process by which food particles are consumed via the mouth. In digestion, the food particles are digested by enzymes that break down the food particles into smaller molecules.

Detailed explanation-3: -So, the correct answer is, ‘ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and egestion. ‘

Detailed explanation-4: -Almost all food is processed in some way before it is eaten. Commercially, the main reasons to process food are to eliminate micro-organisms (which may cause disease) and to extend shelf life. Simply cooking or combining a food with other foodstuffs to create a recipe is also considered a form of food processing.

Detailed explanation-5: -Human nutrition consists of the following steps: intake, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion.