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It usually takes from 24 to 72 hours for healthy people to completely digest food and eliminate waste products. The first stop for food is the esophagus, which moves food from the back of the throat to the stomach. About six to eight hours after eating, food passes through the stomach and small intestine.
On an average food takes 40 hours to digest, however, in males digestion takes 36 hours and in females digestion takes 45+ hours. Examining the stages of digestion gives an insight of how and why digestion takes this long.