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Answer by Ollie
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The digestive process can vary depending on what is being eaten and the person's metabolism. For example, fat takes alot longer to digest than sugars. Fiber in the diet speeds up transit time. Generally it can range from 24 to 48 hours for men and slightly longer for women. Chewing takes 5 to 30 seconds followed by swallowing for up to 10 seconds. The food enters the stomach where it is churned and broken apart by harsh acids, namely hydrochloric acid. The food can remain in the stomach from 1 to 4 hours after which it empties in a semi liquid form called chyme into the small intestine. Here is where most of the real digestion takes place. In other words most of the nutrients are absorbed from the small intestine into the blood stream. The highly acidic nature of the chyme is neutralized by the pancreas with bicarbonates and bile from the gallbladder and liver. This process can take about 3 to 6 hours. Finally about 10 hours after you've eaten the mushy paste of undigested food enters the large intestine or colon. Here it may take another 18 hours or even up to 2 days before its elimination as feces. Water and certain vitamins are absorbed from the colon but most of the waste consists of indigestible bits of food, mostly fibers from fruit, vegetables and grains. So you see transit time can vary anywhere from 22 hours up to two days.

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Question by tony
Submitted on 7/17/2003
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How long does it take for certain foods to digest in the human stomach?

Answer by michelynn1967
Submitted on 11/1/2003
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i would like to know

Answer by mrwsm
Submitted on 11/10/2003
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I would like to know how long it takes to digest marischino cherries. I heard on a TV show that they nestle in your stomack for years to come. Emailed the CEO of Marischino Cherries Corp and did not recieve an answer. This appears very suspicious and validates the TV shows comments.

Answer by smartass
Submitted on 1/8/2004
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it takes several hours to several days depending on what foods you eat.

Answer by rickmemsic
Submitted on 8/27/2004
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In autopsies, they have found 20 year old maraschino cherries fully preserved in the stomachs of people. Sometimes as many as 15.

Answer by Emma Bruce
Submitted on 9/11/2004
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Q:How long does it take to digest your food in total. A:I think it takes about 1-3 days. Age:7

Answer by mr cherry
Submitted on 9/21/2004
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cherries are digested within hours

Answer by riz
Submitted on 4/8/2005
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how long does it take for any food to digest?

Answer by hollister_girl2009
Submitted on 4/25/2005
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It takes about 3 hours, but depending on the food it can take up to 40 hours !

Answer by someguy
Submitted on 6/29/2005
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take me bout an hour whatever i eat then poof goes in the toilet. dunno if that normal?

Answer by Nichelle
Submitted on 9/20/2005
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it takes up to 3 months to digest marchino cherries

Answer by ed
Submitted on 11/2/2005
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that stuff you guys wrote is really great.

Answer by The right answer
Submitted on 11/30/2005
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21 hrs to 24 hrs or 1 to 2 days

Answer by a person
Submitted on 4/9/2006
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yeah right! on average it takes about six hours but it depends on age, weight etc.

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