Crushed
Also accept other answers related to splitting into smaller pieces such as: split up, squashed, squeezed, compressed, smashed, pressed, broken up.
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As food passes through your body, it is broken into pieces small enough to be dissolved in your blood. This process, called digestion, takes place in the digestive tract or alimentary canal – a tube that runs from your mouth to a hole in your bottom called the anus. Food is broken down physically by chewing and churning, and chemically by the action of digestive juices, made by organs called glands.
Food is chewed in the mouth and mixed with a digestive juice called saliva, which is made in your salivary glands. Saliva moistens the food so it slides down your throat easily.
Judy Tatchell: adapted from the following entries: 'Fossils' and 'Digestion' from The Usborne Internet-linked Science Encyclopedia (Usborne Publishing, 2002)
Which other word or phrase could replace broken down to describe what happens to food in the body?
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