The Digestive System

• The digestive system works to physically and chemically break down food.
• Food and fluids are processed by the digestive organs so thatnutrients can be absorbed from the intestines and circulated around the body.
• The digestive process is mostly completed when food reaches the end of the small intestine.
• The digestive organs include the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and anus.
• These organs together form a food-processing pipe that is 30 foot long!
  Salivary glands, the pancreas, the liver and the gallbladder also play an important role in digestion.
• The appendix, a short, blind ended tube attached to the large intestine has no known function.
• Food is moved through the digestive tract by muscular contractions.