After a meal how long does food remain in your stomach?

Answer 1

This depends on a variety of factors including the type of food, your level of activity and what else you intake over the period of digestion.

Food can stay in the stomach anywhere from a few minutes to several hours.

Small amounts of easy to digest material will pass through the stomach in just a few minutes

The more food added and the thickness and density of the food, the longer it will take.

Also, including fluids such as water will cause digestion to take even longer as you will be watering down the stomach acids.

Large amounts of hard to digest food which have been consumed along with liquids may stay in the stomach for 6 to 8 hours.

The average is 2 to 4 hours for a small meal with moderate fluid intake.

Answer 2

Food spends about 3 or 4 hours in the stomach it then takes it about 3 more hours , sometimes more to move through the small intestine, After that it moves into the large intestine where it can stay for up to 36 hours dependant the food you ate. so unless you swallow a laxative of some sort, it can take about 40 hours or more.

Answer 3

this depends on what you eat food can be in your stomach anywhere from 20 minutes to 5 to 6 hours

Lipids or fats stay in the stomach longer than carbs and sugars which is why high fat foods make you feel fuller

Answer 4

it stays for 13 min then leaves into the small intestine.

Answer 5

it takes between 32 - 70 hours for all food to be completly excreted after eating