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’s been said already that your stomach processes food in the order that it enters the stomach. So if you have a burger before fries, the fries will just sit on top of the burger till the burger is done digesting. But in the same way that people can have two or more different types of meat in their stomachs at the same time, the two different types of carbs won’t have a big impact on the other as they are both digested by the same acid and enzymes.

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