Open Digestive System on the body map
Body system
Digestive System
Open the Digestive System on the body map
Where food is broken down and nutrients are taken in.
How nutrients support this system
Each nutrient plays a different part. Open a profile to follow the process, its sources and the foods that carry that nutrient.
Source-backed nutrient relationships will appear here.
Only relationships with references behind them are published for the Digestive System.
Explore the scientific terms
Scientific profile being prepared.
A concise, referenced explanation of what this system does is published with its sources.
Foods that carry those nutrients
Food connections follow the nutrient relationships.
UCFarms crops appear here through the nutrients they carry, once those are published.
Sources & references
References are attached to each statement as the scientific profile is published. UCFarms cites USDA FoodData Central, the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements and peer-reviewed literature.