How Long Does Food Stay In Your Stomach

Are you still hungry even if you eat a lot of different foods? Then you probably are eating foods that are on the high end of the glycemic index.

Are you wondering how long it takes to digest different foods?

In this video we go through how fast or slow foods digest and how long it stays inside your stomach.

Different foods leave you feeling full for different amounts of time, Some digest really quick while some stay

for quite some time.

There is an index called the Glycemic index and this index can tell us how long or quick something takes to digest and leave your stomach.

Foods that has a high index value digests faster and low index vaue food stick around in your stomach a longer time.

So this means that if you eat foods that are high on the index scale you will be hungry pretty soon again and head back to the kitchen.

If you're mainly eating these foods you might be over-eating since you get hungry more often and eat more than you should.

Foods that are on the low end of the index release their nutrients slower which leaves you feeling full for longer.

Lets see then, what foods do take a long time to digest?

Some foods in this category are vegetables, like carrots, they contain complex carbs which gives it a low value on the index

and will take a while to digest.

many fruits such as apples, mangos and oranges also fit into this category.

Some bread such as whole grain and flatbread.

Cashews, peanuts and even spaghetti, all these digest slowly.

Then we have foods that we can put in the medium, ones that dont digest quick nor slow.

Such as the different pumpkins, kiwi, bananas.

Couscous and some cereal like musli.

And now the foods that digest quickly and leaves you hungry pretty soon after you eat them,

Potatoes are high on the index making them quick to digest, it's the same with regular white bread.

So how long does different foods stay in your stomach?

Fish foe example can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour to digest.

Some foods aren't on the index at all since the index requires foods to contain carbs, meat is one of these foods and they can

stay in your stomach from 2 to 5 hours.

So in the future you can throw on some low index foods such as bell peppers on top of your bread if you want to stay

away from another round of food.