Food Transit Path

[Ric.ror]

Roughly - on average how long does it take for your food to pass through your body?
For instance I had porridge at 8am and a mandarin at approx 10.30 - will I have 'passed' that now?

[rowanwitch]

To test your transit time avoid sweetcorn for a week then have a bowl of it.... when it reappears you will know otherwise 12-24 hours

[Sqad]

I presume that you mean from ingestion to defaecation...?

About a day......24 hours.

[Ric.ror]

Thank you Rowan
Its a good one for 'that' kind of thing is sweetcorn

[Ric.ror]

Thank you Sqad

[Ric.ror]

One more thing
Shouldn't three meals a day require three 'visits'?

[Sqad]

LOL...depends upon what you eat........

[pastafreak]

According to wiki...up to 72hours. Most of that is through the colon.

Transit time

The time taken for food or other ingested objects to transit through the gastrointestinal tract varies depending on many factors, but roughly, it takes 2.5 to 3 hours after a meal for 50% of stomach contents to empty into the intestines and total emptying of the stomach takes 4 to 5 hours. Subsequently, 50% emptying of the small intestine takes 2.5 to 3 hours. Finally, transit through the colon takes 30 to 40 hours.[9]

[ethandron]

It varies from person to person. If we eat sweetcorn with our evening meal then for me it appears the next morning, however my other half doesn't see it until the following day, if you see what I mean :)

[Ric.ror]

Thank you all
You have all been very delicate

Would you like me to keep you informed?
Maybe not

[Eve]

I asked similar a while back after one of those camera pill scans. The monitor they sent me home with lost contact after a few hours and we were worried it hadn't worked but the nurse checked the imaging and it had passed through my system already.

[Ric.ror]

Jenna - which PCT are you with?

[Eve]

Central Manchester.