The Digestive TractFirst, food enters the mouth when you eat. Your teeth then break the food into smaller pieces, while this is going on, your saliva is already partially digesting your food into a swallow-able form. Then, people usually swallow, which causes the food to travel down the esophagus (The food is carried down the esophagus using a muscle movement called Peristalsis.) and into the stomach. In the stomach you have Hydrochloric acid and pepsin, this slowly turns the food you eat into a substance called Chyme. The small intestine is responsible for most Digestion, The secretions of the small intestine include amylase maltase, sucrase, lactase, etc. to digest carbohydrates and lipase to digest fats. The food then goes into the large intestine, this is where the food is drained of most of its water, and turned into Feces. The feces is then stored in the rectum, until it is eradicated from the body through a bowel movement.
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