Comment on typical future ER visitor

SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I suppose it’s possible. The amount of absorption is going to depend on what specifically is ‘in there.’ Most vitamins (for example) have been separated from their pre-eaten location/environment by the physical mastication, churning, and compression; and by chemical means by chelation agents, acid/enzyme digestion, or other molecules that break apart lipid blobs and such. Alcohol, the oft-given example of a substance absorbed by the rear part of your gastric tube, is a fairly ‘ready to be absorbed’ compound. Suppositories are also similarly in a state that makes their active agents easily absorbed.

  A whole bananal probably is going to be absorbed like a rock through a 5mm sieve. The bacteria in the rectum might start the process, but if you’ve ever seen an organic object like an apple or banana rot outside somewhere, it is a very slow process. You’ll be much more likely to suffer some form of infection/sepsis from the bloom of bacteria (or the smaller chance of a fungal infection) long before enough of the banana is absorbed.

  All of this is even more true if the OP was shoving them still in their skins in. The bananal skin will definitely be a very slow degradation, and absorb like an intelligent thought into the president elect.

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  • nilaus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bananal skin gave me the giggles👍🍌

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IIRC the large intestine and colon is more about water resorption than nutrient absorption, and while potassium is a very dangerous electrolyte, I’m doubtful that much of it will get absorbed at all, even if 1 banana could do any damage to the average person with working kidneys.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What exactly do you imagine happens when you eat a banana?

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You munch it up… Swallow the mush banana… Gets an acid bath and turns into vomit… Continues to sail down into the small intestine and gets absorbed and dissolved further… Then the large intestine and maybe absorbed further and/or added to by other things such as a banana being inserted from the exit.

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