This GI tract organ acts like a drying oven. It absorbs water from its contents, and consolidates and propels the indigestible components of food toward elimination from the body.

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The large intestine absorbs water from the remaining indigestible food matter and transmits the useless waste material from the body, thus acting like a "drying oven" for the contents that pass through it.

This GI Tract Organ Acts Like a Drying Oven