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the smooth muscles in the stomach help move the food through it. It breaks down the food with various chemicals. It passes the food into the small intestine which absorbs most of the nutrients

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The stomach is a large sack full of digestive enzymes. Its role in digestion is both mechanical and chemical. The stomach is full of enzymes which break down food and kill bacteria. The stomach also moves around, churning its contents. This action breaks down food mechanically during digestion and is the last form of mechanical digestion in the digestive process.

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How does your muscles help to digest your food in the stomach? Well your muscles can't digest your food but it can help you carry the food through out your body.

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It uses acids to break down your food into smaller pieces then as it goes through your intestines it compacts together forming feces.

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The stomach contains the enzyme pepsin, which is a protease that digests proteins into individual amino acids.

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Prior to going to the small intestine, the stomach breaks down food with its digestive juices (hydrochloric acid).

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Well, we have a digestive system. Which has lots of parts and tubes, and then when we swallow it goes though them all.

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