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guy20001: 3 months ago via Android

Why can peanuts and corn make it through the digestive system and taste fine but nothing else will?

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DrBrian: 3 months ago

I don't think that anything that has been through the digestive system is going to "taste fine." BrandenB has the right idea - cellulose largely passes undigested because we don't have the chemistry to use it as a food source. But vegetable fibers of all sorts are an essential part of our food - they give bulk to the feces as it passes through our gut and create the pressure we need to be able to expel undigested waste. The cellulose content of ANY vegetable or fruit will pass through the gut undigested.

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brandenB: 3 months ago via iPhone

I'm not sure on peanuts but corn can come out whole because its comprised of "cellulose," the fingernail s or skin of plants. Our bodies are not adapted to digest this like cows are so.. We simply don't.

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CoCoJizzle: 3 months ago

What if i ate a jar of fingernails?

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brandenB: 3 months ago via iPhone

Fingernails won't fully digest as enzymes wint have a complex for them. HCl will be what partially dissolves it but not ALL of it.
Prepare for damaged appendixes or intestinal tracts.

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DrBrian: 3 months ago

You wouldn't digest the jar at all. But if your stomach acid and enzymes were optimal, you would soften the keratin in nails considerably. Nails and hair are indigestible protein (keratin) and respond quite differently to cellulose.

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CoCoJizzle: 3 months ago

so how would my body handle the jar?

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brandenB: 3 months ago via iPhone

Just stop.

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