The Organs
Produces insulin and makes enzymes that break down food into nutrients to be absorbed
What is the pancreas?
Desserts, ice cream, sugar
Helps tear and crush your food to help break it down.
What is your teeth?
Squeezing movements made by the esophagus and stomach
Apples, oranges, bananas
What is fruit?
Stores extra bile from the liver and releases it when needed
What is the gallbladder?
What is sour?
Pushes food towards the back of the throat to be swallowed.
What is the tongue?
The liquidlike mixture of food formed when the juices in the stomach break down swallowed food
What is chyme?
To help you know how much food of each group you need, the food groups are displayed as....
What is a place setting?
Produces bile and filters poison and wastes from the blood
What is the liver?
What is salty?
Breaks down food for digestion
What is saliva?
The name of the flap of tissue that closes to keep food out of the trachea
What is the epiglottis?
Nutrients that provide stored energy and help insulate the body
What are fats?
Absorbs nutrients from the food as chyme passes through
What is the small intestine?
Black coffee, dark chocolate
What is bitter?
Clusters of cells on the tongue that react to chemicals in food
What are the taste buds?
These juices helps the stomach break down food.
What is gastric juices?
Help build and repair the body
What are proteins?
What is the stomach?
Meats and cheese
What is savory?
This system starts when that first bite of food is put here
What is the digestive system?
The process of breaking down food into something the body can use
What is digestion?
Helps digest the food you eat
What is water?