Answer 1:
I have never had one of the drink. But I checked
online and found that the ingredient includes:
L-Carnitine, Glucose, Caffeine, Guarana,
Inositol,Glucuronlactone, Maltodextrin, Tuarine,
Panax Ginseng. Generally there is atimeline for
the drink or food to stay in our digestive
system:
Mouth: Seconds Esophagus:
Seconds Stomach: Up to 3 hours (depending on
what it is, protein and fat will take much longer
to be digested) Small Intestine: Minutes
Large Intestine: Hours
Most of our
digestion happens in the stomach and the small
intestine. Our stomach can absorb some nutrients
but the majority of the absorption occurs in the
intestine. It takes much longer for protein and
fat to be digested. If you take in just water, it
will take just minutes for it to be taken up and
less than half an hour for it to come out. For the
monster drink, looks like it is more of a sugar
and caffeine based drink. So it will only take
minutes for it to be absorbed (means the same as
kicking in your point). But since it has Ginseng
and other ingredients, it will take, I guess, 2-3
hours for it to go through the whole digestion
system. If you would like some more information on
the digestion timeline and digestion organ for
different types of energy sources, followed is
some more detailed information. Hope that will
help you.
Carbohydrates: The digestible
carbohydrates are broken into simpler molecules by
enzymes in thesaliva, in juice produced by the
pancreas, and in the lining of the small
intestine. Starch is digested in two steps:
First, an enzyme in the saliva and pancreatic
juice breaks the starch into molecules called
maltose; then anenzyme in the lining of the small
intestine (maltase) splits the maltose intoglucose
molecules that can be absorbed into the blood.
Glucose is carried through the bloodstream to the
liver, where it is stored or used to provide
energy for the work of the
body.
Protein: Proteins must be
digested by enzymes before they can be used to
build and repair body tissues. An enzyme in the
stomach starts the digestion of swallowed protein.
Further digestion of the protein is completed in
the small intestine.Several enzymes from the
pancreatic and the lining of the intestine carry
out the breakdown of huge protein molecules into
small molecules called amino acids. These small
molecules can be absorbed from the hollow of the
small intestine into the blood and then be carried
to all parts of the body to build the walls and
other parts of cells.
Fats: The bile
acids produced by the liver act as natural
detergents to dissolve fat in water and allow the
enzymes to break the large fat molecules into
smaller molecules, some of which are fatty acids
and cholesterol. The bile acids combine with the
fatty acids and cholesterol and help these
molecules to move into the cells of the mucosa. In
these cells the small molecules are formed back
into large molecules, most of which pass into
vessels (called lymphatic) near the intestine.
These small vessels carry the reformed fat to the
veins of the chest, and the blood carries the fat
to storage depots in different parts of the body. Click Here to return to the search form.
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