Why does the last thing you eat sometimes not come up when you vomit but something before that comes up?

Question

I threw up last night because I scraped my tongue a bit too far back and it activated my gag reflex. I’d been at dinner with a friend, and I’d had a fair amount of wine, but when I threw up it was only the food that came up and not the wine? Why is this?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Liquids absorb, solids digest. Liquids are absorbed into the bloodstream quite quickly (hence blood alcohol level shortly after consuming liquor), likely you had already absorbed the wine but not broken down the food