What are the four things in feces?

Answer 1

In general, unwanted surplus food. The food in your gut is a thick slurry, to enable it to be moved, and to enable the various nutrients to be extracted. Roughage - fibre material - absorbs water and swells, thus making the movement process much easier. It has no nutritive value. At the bowel a lot of the spare water is removed, for otherwise we might run out of this essential liquid.

The bowel movement frequency is quite variable, some folk twice per day, some only every second day. If you are exercising hard (mountaineering, marathon) much of your food will be needed. For a normal sedentary person, much surplus food is ingested, but not able to be used.

Answer 2

What you find in fecal matter depends on what the animal in question has eaten. You are likely to find undigested food, bacteria, fiber, bile, and discarded blood proteins.

Depending on the situation, you may also find foreign objects. Captive animals are likely to have their bedding material such as wood shavings and straw in their fecal matter. Animals which groom themselves are likely to have hairballs in their fecal matter as well as undigested grass they used to try to help the hairballs to pass. In dog mess, you may find pieces of food wrappers, string, parts of toys, and other foreign objects they may have eaten.

Foreign objects are also sometimes found in human fecal matter. The risk of this is higher with children and mentally ill persons. Malnourished children may eat paint chips or dirt, while a mentally ill person might cut out chunks of their own hair and eat it, for instance.

Then there are thieves and drug runners who swallow items to hide them. That is very risky and should never be done, since the items could get stuck, cut someone's internal organs, or poison them (like swallowing small bags or other things filled with drugs, and the bags breaking).

Answer 3

Undigested food, broken down body tissues, toxins

Answer 4

Four things found in faeces are: undigested food, bacteria, water and bile salts.