Like, what foods are digested the most and make the least amount of turds?
Celery.
I don’t think so…celerey is mostly water and the rest is fiber, so any part of the celery besides the water is coming out.
Ice cream. Mostly fat and sugar, both of which metabolize fairly completely.
Didn’t mean metabolize, digest is more correct.
One must ask the question why. I would think if one does this to reduce the amount of waste, perhaps to avoid public toilets and the like, it may backfire as causeing problems like constipation.
If you aviod fiber you should reduce the quantity of waste.
May I suggest naso-gastric tube liquid? That stuff is high in calories, minimal in fiber (if it has any at all), and contains only enough water to keep it fluid.
If I understand the question right, the answer is simple, as in simple sugar. You should be able to injest modest amounts of table sugar and have it entirely absorbed, hence zero waste. Keep in mind that a lot of your poop is bile, so there still may end up being fecal matter.
Icecream isn’t a bad guess, but commercial icecreams will have a lot of fillers, and those fillers are usually indigestable fibres. Non-fat yogurt is loaded with the stuff, but at the moment the name of it escapes me. Foods like icecream are also quite complex so there is the possibility that it won’t all get digested. And with the increased fat, there will be increased bile.
Tough question.
I agree with the sugar suggestion.
Bile may give feces their characteristic color, but I don’t think it makes up any significant amount of mass, percentage wise. I’ve read that bacteria constitute up to 30% of fecal volume or mass (don’t remember which).
I can’t believe I typed that.
Bacteria make up about 50% of the dry weight. About 80% of the wet weight is, unsurprisingly , water.
YMMV
Getting back to the subject.
According to analagoatcompany.com The most digestible foods are:
[ul][1] an egg
[2] Raw milk, not pasteurized or certainly not homogenized.
[3] Raw Cheese[/ul]
[sup]Straight from the chicken and the cow.[/sup]
Not true. Tube feedings are usually caloricly adjusted to the patient’s needs not simply high calories.
Also tube feedings do have fiber, as well as a good part of the daily amount of water required for proper hydration. Fiber in our diet isn’t just in the form of celery strings, most is microscopic.
Ah wondrous fiber, like microscopic paper towels for colon cleaning.
Soup and pudding. That’s what I consumed when my mouth was wired shut. Didn’t go for two weeks! And even then, it wasn’t even 3 inches long.
IANAMommy, but I have heard that exclusively breastfed babies sometimes only poo once per week because their the milk is almost completely absorbed and there is not much left over.
That’s why that bowl of super colon blow felt like a goddamn roll of Brawny towels coming out of my ass.
It’s a legitimate question for NASA and the air force when they send people up for long duration flights in pressure suits. I have no specifics but I recall reading that SR-71 pilots ate high protien, low fiber meals before flight for this reason.
I completely agree that animal products are more digestible, but why "raw milk, not pasteurized or certainly not homogenized”? I can maybe see non-pasteurized milk being more digestible but if you don’t homogenize milk you get cream.
Boy did you hear wrong! Breast fed babes poo often, they don’t have trouble with constipation. This from many years of cleaning little bums.