Does meat rot inside your stomach?

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asked Mar 21, 2022 in Other-Food Drink by eleventy7 (640 points)
Does meat rot inside your stomach?

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answered Mar 22, 2022 by hippomine (1,870 points)
Meat does not rot inside your stomach.

Meat just like other foods do get digested in your stomach eventually although meat can take a bit longer to digest than other foods.

However meat does not rot in your stomach and it will eventually be digested and turned into energy and the waste will leave your body through your colon.

Meat will generally leave the stomach in 2-3 hours and be fully digested in 4-6 hours.

Our digestive system is well designed to digest meat in order to use its wide range of nutrients, such as iron, zinc and B vitamins.

Nothing can rot in the stomach.

Rotting, or fermentation, means bacterial action on food resulting in decomposition.

And because of the presence of hydrochloric acid, the stomach has very few bacteria.

There are so many myths about meat, including whether it sits in your gut for ages after you eat it.

Nothing 'sits' in your gut.

Your digestive system is not a recycling center that carefully separates your food into meat, vegetables, grains and so on and then processes them separately.

The foods with the longest time to digest are bacon, beef, lamb, whole milk hard cheese, and nuts.

These foods take an average of about 4 hours for your body to digest.

The digestion process still occurs even when asleep.

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