food vacuole

The food vacuole seems to be acidic, just like our stomach, based on its reaction to the various dies and labels the scientists used.

Each parasite has a holding tank called a food vacuole filled with iron-rich crystallized hemozoin.

The hemozoin crystals, packed with concentrated iron, are pushed into the parasite’s food vacuole — the empty space where a rudimentary creature that does not have a gut dumps its waste products.

Little particles of nutritive matter are usually to be detected in the homogeneous protoplasm of its body; commonly these are surrounded by a drop of water taken in with them, and the drop of water is then called a food vacuole.