How long does food usually take to be processed by your body?

How long does it take to digest food?

The body of living organisms generally needs to eat food to feed the nutrients that give energy to the organism and thus the ability to carry out various biological processes. When a person has low blood sugar or fat, he or she sends signals to the brain's appetite center to induce the person to feel hungry and eat.

After eating the food in a solid or liquid form, it enters a long stage inside the body to be transformed into a form through which humans can benefit from the nutrients they contain, so that they can penetrate through the cell membranes of the cells of the body, and this process is called complete digestion.

Duration of digestion:

 The digestion period lasts for days from the moment the food enters the mouth until it comes out of the body in the form of waste, which varies from person to person according to the nature of the body, ranging from 24 hours to 72 hours.

Thanks for your question. 

Studies shows that in individual level digestion varies and it also varies in between men and women. Soon after having your food it normally take 6-8 hours to pass through stomach and SI ( small Intestine ). Afterwards it enters in to the LI ( large Intestine - Colon) for further digestion , absorption ( water mainly absorb here then then undigested food gets eliminate form body. 

So, depending upon the amounts of food ,  It normally takes 24-72 hours to pass  food substance through GI tract. 

24 to 48 hours duration vary from person to person

it's care about your muscle type and cardiac system.

Your muscle type determines the processing speed of the foods you take,

Your cardiovascular form determines how quickly these nutrients will make your tissues faster.

exmp: if you XX ( slow twitch muscle type ) and II ( insertion cardiac type ) You should do this diet appropriate nutrition.

Foods may take different time of  digestion inside the body depends on the chemical structure. Fruits will be digested earlier whereas maida products will take more time to digest.