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When meat is ground up, your body can soak up its nutrients better than when it's in big chunks.
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Supporting (2)
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When lupins are ground finer, pigs absorb more amino acids from them, proving that smaller food pieces help the body get more nutrition.
Smaller food pieces get emptied from the stomach faster in mice, which likely helps the body absorb nutrients better.
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Even when whole grain wheat was ground as fine as white bread, it emptied from the stomach at the same speed — so size alone doesn’t speed things up.
Even when oatmeal was ground into fine flour, it didn’t leave the stomach faster than whole flakes — so smaller pieces don’t always empty quicker.