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Possibly, but this is somewhat irrelevant. Glucose is a vital nutrient, so it is rapidly absorbed by the intestinal lumen cells through active transport processes and diverted into the blood stream rapidly - there generally isn't enough glucose to overwhelm this absorption system to the point that diffusion through the gut wall would be an issue.

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