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 can matter, but in some esoteric ways. Like, it won’t matter in terms of the digestion of nutrients. But there’s some data to show that if you drink cold beverages after a meal (for example, a cold soft drink) that can increase the risk of heart disease because it cools fats in the blood down. Whereas drinking hot drinks (like tea and coffee) after meals keeps those fats warmer and less likely to deposit in blood vessels.

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