How Long does it take to digest your food?
- Why is it after eating certain foods, you feel full for hours, but after others, you’re still feel hungry and are looking for a snack within minutes?
It’s all about how good or bad your body is able to process the food that you are taking in.Body’s digestion of food depends on the type of food being consumed and also on several other factors that affect how long the process can take.
What is Digestion?
In the stomach, the food mixes with the digestive juices and is broken down further before passing into the small intestine. The small intestine’s walls absorb the needed nutrients and water. The colon (large intestine) then takes what your body didn’t use and prepares to remove it out of the body through a bowel movement.
Liquids:-
- Plain water: 10 to 20 minutes.
- Simple liquids (clear juices, tea, sodas)
- : 20 to 40 minutes.
- Complex liquids (smoothies, protein shakes, bone broths): 40 to 60 minutes.
Fruits:-
Foods rich in fiber help the digestive tract to function more efficiently.
Fruits like banana, grapes, melons and oranges take typically 30 minutes to digest.
Raw Vegetables:-
Red Meat:-
Fish:-
Chicken/Poultry:-
Our Stomach needs at least 2 hours to digest chicken.
Chicken with skin fried in oil will take longer time to get digested in the stomach because of its high fat content than a lean chicken breast that is baked or grilled.
Cooked Vegetables:-
Cooked vegetables such as sprouts, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower take approximately 40-50 minutes to digest.
Starchy vegetables such as corn, pumpkin, yams, squash, sweet potatoes and potatoes
digest in 60 minutes.
Root vegetables like turnips, beetroot, sweet potatoes, radishes and carrot digest in an hour.