2007-02-07 23:02:36 · 12 answers · asked by cjpye16 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Not the skins, just like peas and beans if not chewed really well.
2007-02-07 23:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I may be wrong in this because I have to remember back some 55 years, but I think we have lost the ability to digest cellulose and the outer skin of sweetcorn is made of that. Please correct me anyone out there who knows, but isn't that what our appendix used to do? It's now an obsolete organ. Creatures like rabbits are still able to digest cellulose, have long appendices and need to re-eat their droppings in order to do this.
2016-05-24 06:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's a falacy that the body doesn't. Many people think sweetcorn isn't digested because they see it in their stools, not matter how much they have chewed it.
This is because each kernel is covered in a husk that isn't digestable. When you eat it, you digest all the goodness inside, but the husk passes through undamaged.
2007-02-07 23:18:21 · answer #3 · answered by Keira H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you watch Gillian Mcreath on You are what you eat she describes sweetcorn as a "Poo Pusher"
2007-02-08 01:35:35 · answer #4 · answered by spongebob_fruitbat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your stomach & bowels are toothless!
If you chew sweetcorn you will digest, it if you do not you will not!
2007-02-07 23:15:52 · answer #5 · answered by John C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They come out the way they went in but hotter
2007-02-07 23:13:56 · answer #6 · answered by silconbob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I think we have all discovered that at some point lol.
HTH : )
2007-02-07 23:37:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word, no.
2007-02-07 23:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by bluebadger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it does.
2007-02-07 23:09:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not the skin. that's why you see it in your poo! well you asked!!!
2007-02-07 23:10:34 · answer #10 · answered by twit4luv 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋