How do I get nutrients from an apple into my big toe? Your part is merely to chew and swallow the apple - your body does the rest through the digestive process. After thoroughly chewing, it enters a 10-inch long tube called the esophagus, flows past the opening to the lungs (without a speck of apple pouring into them), and arrives in the stomach. The top of the stomach has a valve (the esophage...
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