How much buckwheat is digested?

When planning separate meals and other types of therapeutic or health diets, an important place is taken into account the time of digestion and assimilation of various products.Many nutritionists recommend not to mix food with different times of expected stay in the stomach. At the same time, cereals from different cereals take an important place in healthy nutrition, so it is worth considering how long buckwheat is usually digested.

In medicine, it is considered that the process of digesting food begins in the mouth during chewing. After all, saliva contains a number of enzymes that cause the beginning of the breakdown of the complex substances that make up food, into simpler ones. Although all components of food are finally split only in the stomach - after all, products undergo a complex effect of hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes, the most important of which is pepsin. It is this substance that is responsible for the decomposition of proteins contained in food into amino acids.

At the same time, the fact that Pepsin acts only in a strongly acidic environment. And such an environment inside the human body exists only in the stomach. Already in the next part of the stomach of the digestive system, namely in the duodenum, the environment becomes slightly alkaline, which leads to the cessation of the action of pepsin. Therefore, although food, moving through the intestines, is partially affected by intestinal enzymes and microflora, the stomach plays an important role in the digestion of food. The role of the intestine is reduced to the assimilation of food, that is, the absorption of the healthy components of the food into the bloodstream.

Whole food holds in the human body:

• a few minutes in the mouth and esophagus;
• from half an hour to 4 hours in the stomach;
• up to 8 hours in the small intestine;
• up to 20 hours in the large intestine.

The most important factor on which the duration of food stays in the stomach depends on its composition. Carbohydrates are broken down most quickly in the stomach, protein processing usually takes a little longer, and fats resist the effects of acid and enzymes longer. In addition, the presence of gluten and fiber in it affects the duration of food digestion. Gluten binds chunks of food among themselves, forming large lumps that can be digested for a very long time. Well, fiber itself is almost not digested.

In addition to the composition, it greatly affects the speed of processing in the stomach and the state in which food got inside it. Carefully chewed food is digested much faster than that which enters the stomach in large chunks. Cold foods are usually digested faster than warm foods, and raw foods are more often digested faster than the same heat-treated foods. This is important to consider when consuming protein foods, since proteins, due to the cessation of the action of pepsin in the small intestine, do not break down, but instead begin to ferment. Therefore, food, consisting mainly of protein, should be in the stomach for at least 2 hours, which means it is best to use warm, not cold.

The acidity of the gastric juice greatly affects the process of digestion - the higher it is, the more pepsin acts and the faster the products decompose under the action of acid. Therefore, the use of large amounts of water with food can prolong its absorption for some time. Finally, depends on the time of stay of food in the stomach and the time of day.

Depending on the composition, four main groups of food can be distinguished according to the speed of assimilation.

• Water - enters the intestine without delay.
• Fast-absorbing food, which holds about half an hour in the stomach. It includes all berries and other relatively soft and juicy fruits, such as melons, peaches, grapes and watermelons. This group also includes fruit juices, kefir, honey, chocolate and confectionery (cakes, pastries, cookies).Thus, this group contains products consisting mainly of “fast” carbohydrates. In addition to them, soups and tea, which can be digested up to 40 minutes, also fall into this group.
• Products of the average period of assimilation, which are in the stomach for one and a half - two hours. This group includes fleshy fruits (apples, citrus fruits and bananas), vegetables and greens, fish dishes, dairy products (except curd, cheese and kefir), nuts, dried fruits, chicken dishes, chicken (and quail) eggs, boiled rice. It is easy to notice that mainly protein food belongs to this group.
• Durable digestion products in the stomach for three to four hours. These include cereals from various cereals (including buckwheat), boiled legumes, cottage cheese, most types of bread. This group includes food of complex, mainly protein composition.
• Products of very long digestion, which include all fatty foods (lard and butter), meat (except chicken), all kinds of canned food (including obtained by fermentation and pickling), pasta (except those made from durum wheat) , mushrooms, tea and coffee with milk. Food from this category enters the intestine only after 4 and even 5 hours in the stomach.

Buckwheat boiled on water has the following BJU formula:

• up to 60% carbohydrates;
• up to 13% of proteins;
• up to 4% fat.

Caloric content of 100 grams of a product makes about 320 kilocalories. In addition, the composition of buckwheat groats includes a large amount of iron, as well as potassium, zinc, calcium, phosphorus, molybdenum, iodine, fluorine, cobalt, and other useful trace elements. Rich in buckwheat and vitamins, especially group B:

• B1 contains up to 0.5 mg / 100 g;
• B2 - up to 0.2 mg / 100 g;
• B6 - up to 0.4 mg / 100 g

In addition, 100 grams of buckwheat contains up to 4.5 mg of vitamin PP. Finally, cholesterol-lowering substances are also included in this product.

It is easy to see that boiled buckwheat porridge, like other cereals, falls into the group of products with a relatively long digestion time. Specifically, this product usually leaves the stomach for a period of one and a half to 3 hours. Moreover, this period is valid only for buckwheat boiled in water. The presence in the composition of full-fat milk and large amounts of butter can increase the period of digestion of buckwheat porridge, increasing it to a period of more than three hours.

Thus, it would be best not to combine buckwheat porridge with either very quickly digestible food (predominantly carbohydrate), or very long digestible food (predominantly fat and complex protein). In terms of optimizing the diet, The best garnish buckwheat porridge will be to the chicken breast or boiled egg.

On the time of food digestion tells the doctor-reflexologist in the next video.