Eating with Pooh

Biology

Pooh likes to eat hunny!

• Honey is "manufactured" in beehives

• Bees may travel as far as 55,000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a pound of honey.

Hunny facts• The color and flavor of

honey differ depending on the bees’ nectar source (the blossoms).

• more than 300 unique kinds of honey in the United States.

• Honey never spoils if it is kept in a closed container.

“hunny” is not for everyone!

A Baby’s Tummy isn't Ready for Honey!  

• DO NOT add honey to your baby's food, water or formula.

• DO NOT dip your baby's pacifier in honey.

• DO NOT give your baby honey as medicine.

Why no hunny for baby?

• Honey may contain Clostridium botulinum spores

• can cause infant botulism - affects the nervous system of young babies (under one year of age).

Where does Pooh’s hunny go?

• Digestive or gastrointestinal tract

•Mouth Esophagus Stomach Small intestines Large intestines anus

Where does Pooh’s hunny go?

The digestive system has four functions:

1. Take in food2. Break the food

down into small molecules

3. Absorb the small molecules.

4. Get rid of undigested molecules and waste.

Does Pooh ever chew his food?

•Digestion starts in the mouth.

•Chewing: –mechanical digestion

•Saliva: softens and lubricates food–chemical digestion

Hunny to the Tummy

•Food then progresses through the esophagus to the stomach.

Hunny in the Tummy

•Digestion continues in the stomach.

Hunny out of the Tummy

•Most digestion and absorption occurs in the small intestine.

Hunny out of the Tummy

•The liver and the pancreas are organs that assist in digestion.

Hunny out of the Tummy

•The large intestine absorbs water and packs together solids.

Pooh Poos