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notka56 [123]
3 years ago
13

What is food called when it initially enters the stomach?-Anatomy: digestive system

Biology
2 answers:
navik [9.2K]3 years ago
7 0

At the end of the esophagus is a thick ring of a muscle called a sphincter which allows food to enter the stomach but not from the stomach back into the esophagus. Once the food enters the stomach it is mixed with the digestive juices.

vladimir2022 [97]3 years ago
4 0
When the food enters the stomach it is mixed with digestive juices and becomes waste
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