How long does it take for your food to digest in your stomach? The reason I am asking is because I heard a rumor that it takes one hundred years to digest a cherry.(Ask Doctor Cory)
US Kids, October, 1997 by SerVaas, Cory
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Dear Kandice: Rest assured, it does not take the stomach one hundred years to digest a cherry. It takes about four hours for most of the food from a meal to leave the stomach and be absorbed by the intestine. The hard, round pit, or seed of a cherry, would be more difficult for the stomach to digest. If someone did actually swallow a cherry ...
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