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Although it only takes you a few minutes to eat a meal, it takes your body hours to completely digest the food. The exact time it take for food to pass through the digestive tract depends on the amount and types of food. Factors such as sex, metabolism, and a range of digestive issues can also affect the speed of the digestive process. In general, food takes 24 to 72 hours to move through your digestive tract. At first, food travels relatively quickly through your digestive system. Within 6 to 8 hours, the food has moved its way through your stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. Once in your large intestine, the partially digested contents of your meal can sit for more than a day while it’s broken down even more. The normal range for transit time includes the following: gastric emptying (2 to 5 hours), small bowel transit (2 to 6 hours), colonic transit (10 to 59 hours), and whole gut transit (10 to 73 hours). Your digestion rate is also based on what you’ve eaten. Meat and fish can take as long as 2 days to fully digest. The proteins and fats they contain are complex molecules that take longer for your body to pull apart. By contrast, fruits and vegetables, which are high in fiber, can move through your system in less than a day. In fact, these high fiber foods help your digestive track run more efficiently in general. The quickest to digest are processed, sugary junk foods like candy bars. Your body tears through them in a matter of hours, quickly leaving you hungry again. Takes you a few minutes to eat

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