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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Grandmother wrote three health and cooking books. She was an old school hippy with a commune at one point. A lot of her things she said that we brushed off as crazy have come to be proven right over the years.

She suggested dessert, main course and then salad to push things through.

The main thing I’ve learned from my modern nutritionist is that we should not be drinking with our meals. 30 minutes on either side at least. It gives the food more time in your stomach acids to dissolve into workable matter for your intestines. Drinking with your means dilutes the stomach acids and allows more solid mass to slide out into your intestines where it can feed bad bacteria, parasites, and generally put more strain on your system.

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