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What comes out is the corn shell, which looks like corn unless you poke at it. Source: I poked at it.
by NhanH 6y ago
What comes out is the corn shell, which looks like corn unless you poke at it.
Source: I poked at it.
- brodouevencode 6y agoFor science, of course.
- reddotX 6y agoEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
- smichel17 6y agoNice! Meant genuinely -- I thought this was very much in the "intellectual curiosity" spirit that this site purports to be interested in.
- ssully 6y agoMove fast and poke shit?
- creaghpatr 6y agoThis needs it's own separate scientific investigation.
- Zenst 6y agoAgreed - definitely https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/ https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/ science material and possible future winner in the making right there.
- nkozyra 6y agoAhhh, I wasn't ready for that citation.
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- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoJesus
- nogbit 6y agoLove it! You solved one of the things I’ve always had a hunch but never brave enough to prove myself.
- fortran77 6y agoIt also looks like corn until you taste it.
- kurthr 6y agoCitation needed...
- taylodl 6y agoWhat comes out is the corn shell, which looks like corn unless you poke at it I've heard this, but never experienced it myself. No corn shell in my stool. I've also heard people say hot sauce is just as hot coming out as going in. I've also never experienced that (whew!). I do struggle with my weight, so maybe that's why? My gut microbes are extracting every bit of all the food I eat?
- lotsofpulp 6y agoAs far as I know, humans simply lack the ability to digest cellulos (corn kernel shells) and capsaicin (spicy molecule). I’m surprised you never see corn shells in your stool, but I can imagine people have varying degrees of sensitivity to capsaicin, so some might feel it spicy coming out while others don’t even though the capsaicin is there.
- taylodl 6y agoWell, apparently if you chew corn thoroughly you'll break down the cellulose fibers enough where you can digest the corn kernel shells. I don't pay attention to how I chew food and hadn't noticed chewing more than anyone else. Hmmm, strange! You would think being an older person and having been born, raised and still living in the corn belt and therefore eating LOTS of corn I would have seen the kernel shells sometime! Who knows? Maybe I'm a mutant who can digest cellulose better than most! :) P.S. - In all seriousness maybe that's why I've been able to be a vegetarian for 30 years without suffering from the ill effects people typically suffer, such as excessive gas. Maybe I really do digest cellulose better than most.
- Zancarius 6y ago> I've also heard people say hot sauce is just as hot coming out as going in. Depends on how much you eat, leastwise based on my own experience. There was a point in my distant youth where I thought it was amusing to put as much spicy stuff on a meal as I could manage. Red pepper flakes, cayenne powder, tabasco, etc. It absolutely did burn going out--but only for about 5 minutes. I apparently ate enough to--err--make things go numb. It was a very weird sensation and something I never did again given how unpleasant the whole experience was. I'd imagine the people who--for whatever insane reason--participate in ghost pepper challenges experience something very similar if they can keep them down long enough to partake of the journey to completion.
- sixQuarks 6y agoyes, but does it actually taste like corn?
- Integrape 6y agoSpoken like a true hacker.