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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The acid itself isn’t all that strong pH is around 2. Not something you’d want on your hands but you wouldn’t feel them burning so long as you washed it off within a few minutes. The real power for digestion comes from the enzymes.
This are made by the body specifically to chop up the chemical bonds in food. This is what reduces the meat and veg we eat into essentially liquid. The acid is just their to give those enzymes the pH that they work best at.
As for your eating a fish live while the acid would slowly damage their gills the lack of oxygen and being crushed/suffocated by the muscles in your digestive tract would probably kill them long before.
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