Follow a bite of food from the moment it touches your tongue to the long journey it takes through your body.
Your tongue is covered with tiny taste buds that let you sense different tastes like sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Saliva in your mouth also begins softening food the moment you start chewing.
What organ in your mouth helps you taste food?
The tongue, using its taste buds
What liquid in your mouth helps start softening food as you chew?
Saliva
After you swallow, food travels down a tube called the food pipe into your stomach, where it is broken down further. It then passes into the small intestine, where nutrients are absorbed, and finally the large intestine, before waste leaves the body.
What is the tube called that carries food from your mouth down to your stomach?
The food pipe (oesophagus)
Where does most of the nutrient absorption from food happen?
In the small intestine
1. What helps you taste different flavours in food?
2. Name the tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
3. After the stomach, which organ does food travel to next?
4. What happens to food in the stomach?
5. Why is chewing food well before swallowing a good habit?