If we have stomach acid, how come if we eat something that may have some type of bacteria on it. Our stomach acid doesn’t kill it all before we get infected?
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your stomach acid isn’t very strong for one thing, just sorta helps prepare and neutralize before enzymes and intestines go to work.
Second if you don’t chew small enough pieces you literally pass whole chunks like corn through without so much as discoloration you acid does really nothing to any fiberous foods or even large bites you swallow barely get affected or touched by any acid.
Also many virus and pathogens have shells and protein coatings that can survive easy anyway
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