What Happens to Vitamins after you swallow them?

For health class, the girls read an article about Vitamin Absorption. Read the "info-mmercials" they wrote below for an audience of children.

Veronica

Jan 17, 2012

Vitamin Absorption Script for Info-mmercial

Advertiser: Have you ever wondered happens after you eat your vitamins?

Little Girl: Uh… ‘scuse me what you talking about?

Advertiser: We chew our vitamins and cover it in saliva to help break it in to smaller pieces. That vitamin moves through the esophagus into the stomach, where stomach acids break it down. The vitamin then moves to the small intestine, (where it is absorbed) the large intestine, the rectum, and finally the anus.

Little Girl: (Plugs ears) AAAAAAAHHHH!!!! YOU SAID BLOOOOOODDD! (Runs away)

Advertiser: (Chuckles) Yes, er… yes. Anyway, when you eat salmon, for instance, all the vitamin D in it gets sent into your blood stream. Since all fat - soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K, stay in your body for up to 6 months, you don’t need to eat them everyday.

Little Girl: Eeew… salmon is pink and has big eyes. EEEEEWWWW!!

Advertiser: (Asks manager) Why is she even in this? Oh, hello again. (Waves at camera) Water- soluble vitamins that include, the big B group and the C vitamin need frequent consumption, or else you’ll run out of energy!

Little Girl: Can I go now, please?

The End