Best Foods to Help You Digest Faster

You probably know that the food you eat travels through your digestive system. Through a series of processes your body extracts nutrients and it can take 6 to 8 hours for a regular meal to make its way through all of them. Depending on what you eat and drink, you may be able to speed up the amount of time it takes for your body to digest a meal.

This tangy root is famous for being a natural digestive aid, fighting everything from nausea to vertigo. Whether you sip on ginger tea, add fresh ginger to a smoothie or munch on a few pieces of candied ginger, it may help improve your digestive mojo.

Insoluble fiber is the type of dietary fiber that speeds up digestion. Increasing the amount of wheat bran (an excellent source of insoluble fiber) will likely lead to an uptick in the speed of your digestion. You can also increase insoluble fiber by upping the amount of beans and vegetables in your diet on a regular basis.

Research dating back 20 years points to coffee triggering the muscles in the lower intestine. For some people, this neurological trigger revs up digestion, which can lead to that post-morning-coffee trip to the restroom.