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• Small intestine, 5-6 meters long.
• Large intestine, 1.5 meters long.
• The adults small intestine is 6-7 meters long.
• If you stick the large intestine and the small intestine together, it is 15 meters long.
• The large intestine is 7 to 10 cm wide.
• The large intestine absorbs the water from the waste.
• The small intestine has three layers called, serosa, muscle layer and the mucosa layer.
• The small intestine folds, twists in the center of the cecum, below the stomach there is the liver and pancreas.
• The small intestine crosses 2.5 gallons of food.
• The small intestine is divided into three pieces, they are the duodenum, ileum and the jejunum.
• The large intestine is divided into 6 pieces, they are cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon and the rectum.
• Esophagus is 25 centimeters long.
• The food stays in the mouth for about 1 minute.
• In the stomach the food stays there for 2-4 hours.

• The food stays in the small intestine from 1-4 hours.
• The food stays at the colon for 10 hours or for a several days.
• The villi is purple, they are located vin the small intestine.
• 1.9 liters of food and liquid passes through your body in one day.
• We eat about 500 kg of food in a year.
• 1.7 liters of saliva is made in your mouth for one day.
• Adults can hold 1.5 liters of food in their stomach.
• In your life time the digestive system can handle 50 tons of food and liquid.
• To make saliva, we need salivary glands.
• Saliva helps our food to break down into pieces.
• In the saliva there are chemicals called enzymes.
• A muscle called peristalsis pushes the food down to the esophagus.
• You can eat upside down, you won’t throw up unless your intestinal muscle goes wrong.
• In the stomach, there is a acid called hydrochloric acid which breaks down food.
• Enzymes+hydrochloric acid becomes gastric juice.
• Gastric juice can desolve food.
• The small intestine is 3 grown men tall and two fingers wide.
• The nutrients that the villi takes goes to the liver.

• In the saliva there are chemicals called enzymes.
• A muscle called peristalsis pushes the food down to the esophagus.
• You can eat upside down, you won’t throw up unless your intestinal muscle goes wrong.
• In the stomach, there is a acid called hydrochloric acid which breaks down food.
• Enzymes and hydrochloric acid becomes gastric juice.
• Gastric juice can desolve food.
• The small intestine is 3 grown men tall and two fingers wide.
• The nutrients that the villi takes goes to the liver.
• You need carbohydrates to make it into sugar, and then you burn energy.
• Fibers keeps our digestive system healthy.
• When the blood goes through our liver, your blood gets warm, that makes our body room.

I hope you have learned some more things about the digestive system. I hope you can kind of imagine what our digestive system looks like. I hope you can find the information you want, and I hope you can be a genius, knowing about the digestive system or other systems. Just remember to take care of your body! :)