Chyme

Chyme is what our stomach turns food into after we eat it. Think about when you mix together ingredients to make a cake batter. The batter doesn't look like the flour, eggs, and sugar anymore, right? It looks like something different. That's what happens in our stomachs when we eat.

We chew our food and swallow it, and it goes down a tube called the esophagus into our stomach. Inside our stomach, there are strong muscles that mix up the food with special juices that break it down even more. These are called digestive juices.

After the food is mixed up, it turns into a liquidy mixture called chyme. This is what our body uses to get nutrients and energy from the food we eat. The chyme then moves along to the small intestine where more nutrients are absorbed into our body, and the waste is sent to be removed when we go to the bathroom.

So think of chyme like the batter you make when cooking. It's the result of all the ingredients coming together and being mixed up until it looks different than when you started. In the same way, chyme is what happens to the food we eat inside our stomachs.