EkbyBjarnum
EkbyBjarnum t1_je4ni49 wrote
Reply to comment by xask9 in ELI5: How does your stomach "know" when to pass food on if more food keeps entering during initial digestion? by Water-Cookies
Technically it's only gorf if it comes from the Gorf region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling snarf
EkbyBjarnum t1_je4mzfd wrote
Reply to ELI5: How does your stomach "know" when to pass food on if more food keeps entering during initial digestion? by Water-Cookies
Oh! I actually JUST finished reading this book about the digestive system with my daughter, so this is fresh in mind. (Great book series I think this sub would dig, by the way)
Your stomach dissolves your food into a liquid concoction called chyme, and it passes from there through a sphincter into your small intestine. Solid food, food that isn't done with that part of the digestion process, straight up isn't going to fit through that sphincter.
It doesn't become solid waste again until the large intestine.
Your whole digestion tract is just sphincters all the way down.
EkbyBjarnum t1_je69010 wrote
Reply to comment by Prunus-cerasus in ELI5: How does your stomach "know" when to pass food on if more food keeps entering during initial digestion? by Water-Cookies
CORN.