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Im a sandwich and the first step of my trajectory is being chewed by the teeth. The job of the teeth is to start tearing and crushing me down into small enough pieces so that I can fit down the throat. The salivary gland in located underneath the back of our tongue. It creates our saliva or spit. This helps soften the me in the mouth so that it is easier to swallow. Saliva is also the first of several chemicals that start to break down me into simpler forms. The last step in the mouth is the tongue, it is a muscle that works with the me and the saliva to form a "ball" that can be swallowed easily. Of course, the tongue also contains taste buds that helps the person tell the difference between salty, sour, sweet, and bitter foods. For example Im a sandwich so the person that ate me can taste all my flavors. After all this things have happened in the mouth, the I can be swallowed and can continue my journey around the digestive system
Once Im in the liver alot more chemicals hit me. The liver makes a chemical called bile but bile is not stored in the liver. Instead it is stored in the gall bladder. When the gall bladder mixes bile with me, it does an important job: breaking down the fat into tiny droplets. This fat will supply the person that ate me with much energy later.
Now Im in the small intestine. It is 7 metres long. This is where the real digestion takes place. As the I pass through, Im mixed with the new chemicals and soon our Im digested small enough to be put to use by the body. Along the walls of the intestine are thousands of tiny fingers called villi. Blood vessels (capillaries) in the villi can absorb the my tiny molecules and send them off to the rest of our body through the blood.