What happens to large food molecules before they can be made use of in your body and how does the process happen?

When we're eating food, the different food stuffs need to be broken down from big molecules to smaller ones. This happens through different processses which happen in our body. For this reason, the larger molecules need energy to be broken up into smaller ones and when these happens these smaller ones get then taken up in our body and used up.

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