'food normally spends how long in a healthy small intestine
about 30 hours
Six hours
Food spend about four hours in the small intestine
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Food stays in the small intestine about 3-5 hours
Food is passed from the stomach, and it goes through the long tube called the small intestine. In the villi it absorbs nutrients and sends it to the bloodstream, the small intestine is the biggest part of the digestive system, and the food is send to the large intestine where it is made into excrement.
Between 3 and 10 hours
In order that enough nutrients are absorbed through the walls of the small intestine as food passes through, the tube has to be long. In an adult, the small intestine can be anything up to 6 metres or over in length. thank you... Shunterria S. Parham May 2009
Food may spend as many as four hours in the small intestine.
Since the small intestine helps absorb nutrients and calories from digested food, the small intestine needs to be long enough so it can go through full digestion.
It's called the Small Intestine. It is the longest part of your digestive system. Through a muscular movement called peristalsis, food is squeezed through the small intestine. The nutrients from food are absorbed into your blood stream by microvillus, which are microscopic and line the intestine. Once the food has passed through the small intestine, all the important nutrients have been extracted so the left over food is passed on through the large intestine and later excreted.
The food first goes to the small intestine and then to the large intestine. The tube itself is called the INTESTINE. Rohit Prasad
After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine.
2-3 hours
Food is not digested in the large intestine it is digested in the small intestine the purpose of the large intestine is to reabsorb water
Maybe I misunderstand your question, but... ... as the small and large intestine are joined to each other (exit small intestine and enter the large intestine), the food moves between the two almost instantaneously.
Since the small intestine helps absorb nutrients and calories from digested food, the small intestine needs to be long enough so it can go through full digestion.Because Sarah H. told me the large intestine is better
It has to be long so that food can be given more time to be broken down. To absorbed quicker, the small intestine has to be narrow.
i dont know the answer but its not the small intestine. The small intestine is a long folded tube inside the body attached to the stomach where nutrients in the food are absorbed.
it spend in the small intestine for 24 hours
small intestine absorbs nutrients, while the large intestine absorbs water from waste products
Abo 1 day
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Small intestine.