When we eat food how powerful is the acid in our stomach, is it powerful enough to kill a life? For example, if someone ate goldfish or shrimp alive. How does it work, do the acid kill them immediately or they die slowly.
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I think its somewhere around 3 to 4, around soft drink pH. It’s not quite enough to straight up dissolve food, but it helps to break chewed up stuff apart and loosen it up a little. There are a lot of other enzymes like proteases that enzymatically digest the food as well, and more digestion occurs through the gi tract. Stomach acid I’m pretty sure isn’t made by just your body dumping in hcl, it pumps H+ into it, lowering the pH the same way an acid would
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