Question

For lunch, you have a turkey sandwich on wheat bread with mayonnaise and lettuce. describe how each component of this meal would be broken down in the digestive system

Answer 1

You eat the turkey sandwich on wheat bread with mayyonaise using your mouth the salivary gland produce a hormone to help your mouth chew and it breaking down into a pieces to ensure that it would be fit to your esophagus. then when the food enter on your esophagus a narrow long tube connected to your mouth a peristalsis a smooth tissue will help to narrow down the food towarda your stomach and then when the food reach your stomach your stomach undergo a series of reaction first your stomach breaking down the food into a little pieces and mixed it with a strong gastric juice to extract the proteins and the raw materials needed by your body (then it is different discussion for today) your stomach need to process your food up to 6 hrs of digestion after that the food will become a feces this will enter to the small intestine and to the rectum and then to the anus.