How Is Food Digested In The Stomach. After you eat it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. During the digestive process the sphincter relaxes and lets food pass into your stomach.
Bile is a greenish-yellow fluid that is made in the liver. Protein digestion starts in the stomach where it is partly broken down with stomach juices. At this point you can have your child use their hands to crush the crackers into small pieces.
After you swallow peristalsis pushes the food down your esophagus into your stomach.
After you eat it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. The stomach participates in all digestive activities except ingestion and defecation. Mechanical and Chemical Process Peristaltic waves Peristalsis is a mechanical process are produced in the stomach and first such wave closes the pyloric sphincter which is basically a ring of smooth muscles located between the duodenum and the stomach so that the food doesnt enter the small intestine. Pancreatic enzymes and bile finish off the chemical breakdown of the acidic stomach contents.
