Wednesday, June 20, 2012

DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS IN THE STOMACH


  
DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS 
(approx. time spent in stomach before emptying). ........

UNEDITED  EXTRACTS from DR STANLEY’S ARTICLE ON FOOD HYGIENE link here


Water
when stomach is empty, leaves immediately and goes into intestines,
Juices
Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.
Semi-liquid
(blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.
Fruits
Watermelon - 20 min.digestion time. 
Other melons - Canteloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew etc. - 30 min.
 
Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min.
 
Apples, pears, peaches, cherries etc. - digest in 40 min.





Vegetables
Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cucumber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. - 
Steamed or cooked vegetables
Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time
Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min.
 






Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches
Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion. 
Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains
Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min. 
Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein)
Lentils, limas, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time 
soy beans -120 min. digestion time
Seeds & Nuts
Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours.
Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.
 







Dairy and dairy products
Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time 
whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion
 
whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time
 
Animal proteins
Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time
Whole egg - 45 min.
 
Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time
Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time
 
Chicken - 1½ to 2 hours digestion time (without skin)
 
Turkey - 2 to 2 ¼ hours digestion time (without skin)
 
Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time
 
Pork - 4½ to 5 hours digestion time
 

(Editor's notes
Note1:
 raw animal proteins have much faster digestion times than the above times for cooked/heated animal proteins.

Note2: The digestion times given are under an
 ideal situation of eating only one food, chewing well, and having efficient digestion, as is the case e.g. after a fast. They are digestion times for optimally healthy persons, with good eating habits. The digestion times are to a large part derived from Dr. Gian-Cursio's and Dr. Bass' practices.
Digestion times are much longer on a conventional diet, and for persons with non-optimized digestive systems, or persons lacking in energy, and for meals with many ingredients put together haphazardly = not in the optimum sequential order
.)

FROM DR STANLEY 
..... In my opinion and experience as a nutritional consultant in Natural Hygiene (I began studying nutrition in 1936), sequential eating represents the most advanced approach to understanding proper food combining.
After testing and retesting the concept on myself thousands of times, as well as on others, including the experience of Dr. Cursio, his family, his patients, as well as other Hygienic doctors - Dr. John Mega, Dr. Marvin Telmar, Dr. Anthony Penepent, etc. 

FOOD COMBINING
Any quick digesting foods must wait till the slowest digesting foods leave the stomach before they can leave - a process which can take up to 6 or 8 hours. While waiting, the fruit, cooked and raw vegetables, and some of the starches undergo some decomposition and fermentation, producing gas, acid and even alcohol along with indigestion. .....

BASIC RULE - WATERY FOODS FIRST
Eat the most watery food first .....
Avoid drinking beverages or even water during or after meals
Chew your food as close to liquid form
My earlier post on sequential eating-   link here

Try it - feel the difference when you practice "sequential eating"
(eating in layers/ proper combination of foods).

43 comments:

  1. Very interesting info, Wan.
    I heard about drinking water before meal, and no drinking water after or in between meals are good for your diet. Or is it about getting a flatten stomach? :)

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    1. hi nash, sorry i dont know if its good for flat tummy... try and see///have a nice day

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  2. Wow this is mind blowing. We Indians traditionally eat 3 meals where we have food from all the four groups i.e. carbohydrates, proteins, fats vitamins and minerals in the form of pulses, veggies and whole grains. This is all new to me.
    Must give it a try.
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    1. hi archana.. mind blowing alright.. i will just segretate my water and fruits intake at best. cant cope with digestion grouping. have a nice day

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  3. Your posts are always so informative..can learn a lot of things..what to do and what not to do..

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  4. wow!!! this post is really informative for me..everytime I visit to your blog, I will get great knowledge here...thank you!

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    1. hi rina, thanks and it is useful to follow the sequence

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  5. amazing info about digestion. sequential eating is always helpful..

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  6. Very helpful! I'm definitely going to wait till later in the morning to have more water.

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  9. This is gold Wan, I did not know 10% of all of this but i have to say it's very interesting. Thank you so much dear
    Take care. x

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    2. hi marie , glad you appreciate this. have a nice day

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  10. ...Good to know! I need to eat more proteins ;-)

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    1. hi jasna, thanks, i need to eat less food variety in any meal. have a nice day

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  11. I get gather much infor from Dr Stanley and your sharing.

    Hi Maz,
    Would you like to do a guest post on my blog in the month of August. If possible do write to email at krishnan.nava@gmail.com
    You are free to share any new or even what you have shared before in your blog. Tq so much.

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    1. hi nava, thanks and i would love to do a guest post for you..will email..have a nice day

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  12. i think if i miss ur any post i make my loss.as ur posts are informative and useful for our daily life;

    have a nice weekend

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    1. hi santosh, thank you, its such great honor to me. have a nice day

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  13. very informative post dear !!!my mom too used to tell us.. one shld not drink during meals, shld giv a gap of minimum 30 minutes after meals before drinking beverages/water.My father used to suffer from acidity a lot, maintaining this time gap has helped him a lot :-)

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    1. hi sonali, wonder how that works. thanks for the great tip. have a nice day

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  14. Ramadan is near, usually b4 eating... down goes 2 full glasses of water, O dear!

    TQ for alerting, must change our eating habits.

    Cheers

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    1. hi katrina.. scary huh.. no wonder no awet muda, salah cara. have a nice day

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    1. hi dear, great if can follow this as much as possible. have a nice day

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  16. Excellent article! Very informative.

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