ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -After you eat, it takes about six to eight hours for food to pass through your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) for further digestion, absorption of water and, finally, elimination of undigested food. It takes about 36 hours for food to move through the entire colon.

Detailed explanation-2: -In your small intestine, food mixes with additional digestive fluids. This is where most of the nutrient absorption takes place. Food can spend between 2 to 6 hours in your small intestine.

Detailed explanation-3: -A juice from the liver called bile helps to absorb fats into the bloodstream. And the gallbladder serves as a warehouse for bile, storing it until the body needs it. Your food may spend as long as 4 hours in the small intestine and will become a very thin, watery mixture.

Detailed explanation-4: -It takes between four to six hours for your body to digest food, says Craig Gluckman, MD, a gastroenterologist at UCLA Health. This is the amount of time it takes for the food to go from your mouth to your colon, also known as the large intestine.

Detailed explanation-5: -Via the small intestine, the food will be digested between two and six hours before it comes to your large intestine. This is where the food spends the longest amount of time, as it can take as short as 10 hours and as long as 59 hours to pass, explains Burgess.