It may only take you five minutes to eat your dinner, but the food takes 24 hours or more to journey through about 7 m (23 ft) of digestive system.
Meal time
Chewing crushes food and saliva softens it.
+10 seconds
Swallowed food travels to the stomach where it is churned into chyme.
+4 hours
Partially digested chyme passes from the stomach to the small intestine to be broken down even more.
+7 hours
As digested food squeezes through the small intestine, nutrients enter the bloodstream.
+9 hours
Waste passes to the large intestine where excess water is re-absorbed.
+24-72 hours
Undigested waste finally leaves the body as faeces.
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