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Mystery #3Tier 2-3body / digestion

How does your body get the goodness out of food?

Food is full of the 'goodness' your body needs to grow and have energy, but how does that goodness get out of a soupy mush in your tummy and into the rest of you? It has to cross from your gut into your blood somehow.

A labelled scientific illustration of a single intestinal villus, the tiny finger-like bump that soaks up nutrients into the blood.
Photo: NIH NIAID (NIH BioArt) · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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