Food moves from your stomach into your small intestine . Your small intestine squeezes food along like you squeeze toothpaste through a tube. Tiny hairlike villi cover the inside walls of your small intestine. Villi are like doors in the walls of your intestine. Food goes through the villi and out into your bloodstream.
Food has to be tiny to go through the villi.
Mix the pepper and water in a cup. Pour it through a paper towel into another cup. Journal Entry Tell about the small intestine and the villi in your own words. The things your body doesn't use are wastes . As food is squeezed through your small intestine , useful bits are taken into your bloodstream .