DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF A BANANA BY:SARAH ROPER

MOUTH

• Teeth,tongue,saliva
• Breaks down food into smaller pieces and saliva moistens it
• You peel the banana peel you take a bite out of it you chew it up and you swallow it

ESOPHAGUS

• The banana goes to the esophagus all mushed up
• Hollow muscular tube
• Contracts and sends food to the stomach

STOMACH

• Then it reaches your stomach it has to digest and it changes to a chemical
• Hollow muscular pouch
• Uses muscles,acids and other chemicals to break food into smaller pieces

SMALL INTESTINE

• Then the banana absorbs it's surroundings and find the nutrients
• Tube lined with villi
• Absorbs nutrients into the blood and chemically digests food

LARGE INTESTINE

• Then it goes through the large intestine
• Tube that contracts and pushes waste toward the anus
• Helps to get rid of waste and absorbs water back into the blood

ANUS

• Then the banana goes out of your body
• Muscular opening
• Allows waste to exit the body