Where Does Our Food Go?

Where Does Our Food Go? When you are hungry, you eat. You put food in your mouth. Then you swallow. But where does the food go after that? The food travels down your throat and into your stomach, where all the interesting stuff happens! In the stomach, food is broken down into all the good things you need to grow big and strong. The stomach is shaped like a small  bag. It can hold about one and a half litres of food. That's a lot of food! There are special juices in the stomach that break the food down into really small pieces.

A person eats about 450 kilograms of food each year. Imagine how busy a stomach is each day! That's why we have stomach aches sometimes. Too much food or the wrong kinds of food can make our stomachs hurt. Now you know what happens to the food you eat.