permit ’s talk total Thanksgiving tonnage here . How much Butterball - plus - fixins can you reasonably jam down your yaw this Thursday ? essentially : You could feed a lot more if it was n’t for all the saliva you have to make to separate it down .
accord to thisvideo by Vsauce3 , the medium human abdomen can well contain about three to four liters of poppycock ( or stuffing ) before it starts to reject anything else get down the tube . That ’s a total nutrient quantity equivalent to what would fit in a gallon of milk .
But more significantly , you also have to make all the saliva and gastric dose to break up it down — three to four pints of saliva a day ! That ’s the real limiting agent here : Not as much stomach space , but how apace our breadbasket can recoil the chemical process into gear wheel . That ’s why drinking pee while bingeing on mashed tater is so crucial .
That does n’t mean that people have n’t tried to grind away more than a few litre of food down there . militant feeder Takeru Kobayashi has eaten 18 Egyptian pound of cow brains in 15 minute , which vocalise like a worthy tableside challenge for you and your first cousin . If you should bechance to satiate , do n’t take Alka Seltzer — the sodium bicarbonate + belly dot combining has resulted in a few rarified instances of stomach explode . Happy Thanksgiving ! [ Vsauce3 ]
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