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ATP is used by cells as energy currency because it contains a "high energy" phosphate bond. Since it is high energy it is also labile, so if one were to eat ATP the high acidity in the stomach would cause this bond to break. The products of this reaction would be ADP and a phosphate ion. I'm not sure if this would be further broken down into AMP plus another phosphate, but I think that the ADP or AMP could be directly adsorbed by the stomach lining. Of course, these molecules no longer have the high energy of ATP, so one would not get additional caloric value.

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