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Re: Answering the chewing gum question

Posted By: TOM, on host 63.85.132.5
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 08:21:12
In Reply To: Re: Answering the chewing gum question posted by Sam on Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 06:41:33:

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> 7. Vitamins are included, but this is the part I don't know about. I don't really know if vitamins should count as food. Would a vitamin work to satiate hunger at least as well as a breath mint does? And yet, while it's ingested and digested, and it's intended to be ingested and digested, it's not treated as sustenance.
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I don't think vitamins are digested. Digestion is the process of converting food into something useable by the body. I don't know that once a vitamin gets to the stomach, it goes through any sort of process other than "dissolve and get into the bloodstream."

But I'm no biology expert.

The Other Matthew

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Re: Answering the chewing gum question - Sam - Thu, 2/20/2003, 10:11:34

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Message:	> > > > 7. Vitamins are included, but this is the part I don't know about. I don't really know if vitamins should count as food. Would a vitamin work to satiate hunger at least as well as a breath mint does? And yet, while it's ingested and digested, and it's intended to be ingested and digested, it's not treated as sustenance. > > > > I don't think vitamins are digested. Digestion is the process of converting food into something useable by the body. I don't know that once a vitamin gets to the stomach, it goes through any sort of process other than "dissolve and get into the bloodstream." > > But I'm no biology expert. > > The Other Matthew
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