How can we digest a seemingly huge variety of foods at the same time?
I was at a wedding function and there were all kinds of foods, milk based, solids, hot, cold, meat, desserts and of course raw meats and veggies. It boggles my mind how our intestine can digest all of these if eaten at the same time. How did we get to this? I don’t seem to know any other species capable of this.
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Imagine if you had a lego house made up of red, blue, yellow and green lego blocks. You want to make a car that is red, blue and yellow. What do you do?
You break apart the lego house, then pick out the pieces you want. All the green pieces that you won’t use for the car, get put to the side.
When you eat, you break apart the food with chewing, acid and enzymes. Then your intestines pick out the parts that it wants. Proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. All the parts that it doesn’t use, get pooped out.
While carnivores/herbivores specialize in eating certain things they can still digest some of the stuff that’s outside their typical diet.
Omnivores have a more generalist diet. Humans, pigs, dogs, chickens, raccoons, bears, ants, mice, catfish and tons of other animals out there could have eaten most, if not all, of the food that you had at that wedding.
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