How long does it take to fully digest a Hamburger?

[240 is Back]

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Hamburgers are one of my all time favorite foods. Especially when they're big and juicy with the works, and a nice milkshake to wash it down.  But I was wondering how long all that takes to digest, because I always feel extra slow and sleepy after eating a big burger. Is it just me or do hamburgers take a long time to digest? Well according to Dian Dooley, Associate Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, it takes up to three days to fully digest a hamburger. On the other hand a fruit salad takes less than 30 minutes to digest. Our bodies are extremely efficient at digesting raw fruits and veggies because they have a lot of water in them. Humans are 70% water and so it makes sense that foods with a lot of water would digest easier.

More Digestion Facts:
Yogurt takes 2-3 hours to digest
Spaghetti takes 4-6 hours
After you swallow food it travels to your stomach in a matter of seconds
Muscles contract in waves to move the food down the esophagus. This means that food would get to a person's stomach, even if they were standing on their head.
1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day.
http://swagfood.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-long-does-it-take-to-fully-digest.html

[SF1900]

I digested a hamburger the other day. Took a good poop. Took a picture of it.

[macos]

Called up hamburger......he said he would like you to flush him down the toilet and stop insulting it with goorum.

[Novena]

Hamburgers are one of my all time favorite foods. Especially when they're big and juicy with the works, and a nice milkshake to wash it down.  But I was wondering how long all that takes to digest, because I always feel extra slow and sleepy after eating a big burger. Is it just me or do hamburgers take a long time to digest?

 I propose an experiment:
Eat a hamburger such as you describe with all the trimmings.  Immediately
after eat a small bowl of whole kernel corn.  Note the time and date.  Use the
corn as a "marker" and measure how long it takes for the corn to appear in your
"movement".
 I await your findings.

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[pellius]

How is digestion defined. Is it from ingestion to elimination. Most are concerned when it clears the stomach so they can't workout. And I've always believed it about two hours depending on what you eat and how much. Obviously a steak won't clear the stomach as fast a banana. And three tuna sandwiches will take longer than one.

[gee38]

14 hours 17 minutes and 11.8 seconds.

this is for a quarter pounder


if you had cheese it takes an extra 8 minutes 6 seconds

if you had jalapeno's you can speed it up to 12 hours 45 minutes and 7.66 seconds

[pellius]

14 hours 17 minutes and 11.8 seconds.

this is for a quarter pounder


if you had cheese it takes an extra 8 minutes 6 seconds

if you had jalapeno's you can speed it up to 12 hours 45 minutes and 7.66 seconds

What if I throw in a tablespoon of Psyllium Husks?

[Dr.J]

It will go in and then out...thats when its done..

When its.   IN AND OUT thats what &guy is all about.

[Kwon_2]

It will go in and then out...thats when its done..

And the digestion-time is?

[galeniko]

yah, good thread opi, banana takes 4-8hrs.

so muvh for pre workout banana


when you come from eating clean and shredded and eat some trash like fast food burgers, you can feel it takes forever to clear the system.

It will go in and then out...thats when its done..

When its.   IN AND OUT thats what  hamburger is all about.

yeah.same with everything

[Dr.J]

when you come from eating clean and shredded and eat some trash like fast food burgers, you can feel it takes forever to clear the system.
yeah.same with everything
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[Gregzs]

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[THE ARS]

yah, good thread opi, banana takes 4-8hrs.

so muvh for pre workout banana


when you come from eating clean and shredded and eat some trash like fast food burgers, you can feel it takes forever to clear the system.
yeah.same with everything

I don't think you would feel that from a real hamburger, Galeniko.

Fast food is nasty stuff, it's a distant relative of real food.



Tom

[Natural Beast]

it depends on how fast your metabolism is..

[drockland]

Easy answer to all you juicers problems.  Do not eat red meat or juice!

[BigCyp]

Forgive me if i'm being an idiot here, but lets say you wake up at 6am and before you train you eat a ripe banana. Obviously, by the time you have finished your 45 min weight session, the banana will not be fully digested (as Gal mentioned, it does take a few hours) BUT, there is a reason that diabetics are advised to carry a chocolate bar/banana/sugary drink with them at all times - if they get a Hypo, they can eat it and there WILL be glucose in their bloodstream within a few minutes.

So eating a pre workout banana is not going to be fully digested in time to 'fuel' the workout (your body will use glycogen stores from the liver from the previous days eating to do this btw) but, it could still boost the glucose in your blood, and help energy levels?

[THE ARS]

Easy answer to all you juicers problems.  Do not eat red meat or juice!

What are you saying here?

Extrapolate or you are a homo to be ignored.

Red meat is life.



Tom