what is ingestion,digestion,absorption,assimilation and egestion
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In human beings, food needs to be processed and absorbed to obtain nutrients. This process consists of the following five steps:
Ingestion: Intake of food.
Digestion: Breaking down of food so that it can be absorbed by the body.
Absorption: The process of absorbing food in the form of nutrients into the blood stream of the body.
Assimilation: The process of nutrients being absorbed by each cell of the body in the form of energy.
Egestion: Secretion of waste, unwanted and excess substances from the body after food the as been digestion.
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Ingestion is the taking in of food .
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