we are back once again in this science room we have lots of stuff in front of us dr nate
dr nate exactly what i was thinking please explain what we are doing today
i thought we would explore what happens when you eat your breakfast i hear you like to have a big
breakfast in the morning so i thought i'd bring it for you here um mini rolls do you like mini
rolls i like would you mind just eating a mini roll for me eat that delicious mini roll and stop
what happened there max did you see what happened he jumped he chomped he chomped he used his teeth
can you grab those scissors and chop up those mini rolls yeah into the bowl in front of you
you had some bananas right bananas okay so you had a couple of bananas each one of you could
peel a banana and chop that off i like to have the skin in my banana no you don't want to have
the skin in your banana make the experiment go very wrong okay get that banana in there
did you have beans this morning yeah beans i did have beans i bought a can of beans for you
still not swallowed beans all right so you also had toast i heard did you have
toast how many slices about eighteen eighteen for this one we'll just do three i don't know whether
you're coffee drinkers but i really need to have a strong coffee in the morning unfortunately i'm
not but we'll do the coffee yeah let's put the coffee in okay harvey what would you do next
chew you'd use your molars to squish up the food which is what the potato mash is for
mash away give that a really good match nice grill let's get let's get some let's get some skin in
there but where does it go next when you swallow what happens next throat throat into stomach
stomach exactly so there is a plastic bag there if you want to grab that plastic bag there we go
all right in the bag it goes so the stomach is a really powerful organ not only is it filled with
acids and other things to break down your food but it's really muscly really mixes it around and
churns it up so if you give that a good turn keep churning around so once that is all churned up
in your stomach then it has to go somewhere else but it goes into your intestines first one being
your small intestine which i'm representing here with a pair of tights okay here we go let's go in
so the small intestine is where all the good stuff comes out all of those
nutrients so what i need you to do is absorb some of those nutrients grab the top again
keep going keep going you're going to get all that good stuff so that's the thing the carbohydrates
that give you energy that's the fats that give you energy but also support you the proteins that
help you get big and strong so to represent the next stage which is the large intestine
i've got a towel to dry out that food to get as much of that water out as possible listen nate
i think we're still going with it keep keep it going because there's a lot more in there so it
travels from the small intestine now it has to go into the large intestine yeah your heartbeat
you can do this this is really weird there we go there we go beautiful work look at it
we've got to get as much water out of that possible so could you dry
that lovely bit of food bit harder you know give it a good squish get as much water as possible
remember this is yeah i'm having i'm having so much fun now the rectum is the last stage on the
intestinal journey the the journey of your breakfast you can do it you can do it i
believe in you sorry okay loading rectum i feel like i'm gonna drop this hang on
oh my gosh there it is yeah you can tell when your rectum starts to fill because
of a certain feeling do you know what that feeling is indigestion yeah you need a poo so
what i need to do is cut the end off that that beautiful piping bag and show us your poo
now let's see a bit closer up you've seen this time bake off haven't you this this does not get
done on baker i'm not gonna lie i'm disgusted in all of us at least at least we now know how the
digestive system works i'm i'm very knowledged now on i should i should work on my grammar next time
but i i know how the digestive system works so thank you dr nate say goodbye bye did it normally