Your stomach breaks down the food you eat so that your body can use its nutrients . It takes your food seven seconds to reach your stomach from your mouth. The liquid in your mouth, called saliva, is very important in this process. Your body produces 1.5 liters of saliva every day. The stomach is very small, but it can stretch a lot to contain food. When the stomach is empty we can hear some of the processes. The name for the noise our stomachs make is borborygmi.
nutrients: n. things in food that you need to live and grow
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