The digestive system is made up of a set of organs involucrated in the digestive process, the process that transforms the food we eat so it can be absorbed by our body and used by our cells.
The functions of the digestive system are the transportation and treatment of the food we eat, secretion of digestive juices that help digestion, absorption of nutrients that come from food, and finally, the excretion or expulsion of unused waste by our body through the process of defecation.
The digestion process carries out the transformation of food into carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins contained in food in much smaller and simpler units more accessible for our body to assimilate. This is produced by substances called digestive enzymes.
