Eli5: does the order in which you eat food matter?

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Regarding digestion if hypothetically you have dessert first before eating dinner (but within the same time frame), does that lead to a different digestion outcome than if you had dinner before dessert?

Let’s say I eat a burger first then fries after, does that affect your stomach and digestion differently than if you were to eat fries first before the burger? Or assuming you have them within minutes of each other it doesn’t really matter?

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It has an impact, but it doesn’t matter for most modern people in the west.

If you don’t have any food restrictions then slight changes in how your body absorbs food are not going to impact you in your daily life. If your food is limited then it starts to matter and you should talk to a medical professional and have tests done on you, since a lot of it is dependant on your genetic makeup and gut microbiome.

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