Labels:book | bulletin board | cell | person | plant | sky OCR: How THE SMALL INTESTINE WORKS OUR SMALL INTESTINE From STOMACH completes the process of digestion by breal king pooy down into simple substances. 1 Food enters the These are then absorbed into small intestine your body through the lining of the small intestine Muscles in the lining contract. squeezing pooy along in process called perist stalsis. It takes about six hours for pooy to travel through this long tube Digested food is absorbed by the body To LARGE INTESTINE PERIS TOLSIS Indigestible pody passes into the part of the large intestine OBSORF TION breaking peristalsis podd first ABSORPTION