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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All of those various different foods really aren’t all that different at a molecular level. At the end of the day, most foods are just a series of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen molecules strung together in different ways.
When it enters your stomach acid, the foods will all be broken down into those component parts. Most mammal stomachs and intestines can break down these basic components pretty easily.
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