Undigested

He explained that the carbs in these foods can be poorly absorbed, so reach the large bowel largely undigested, where they’re fermented by gut bacteria which produce gas and cause symptoms such as bloating.

After eating up to 80% of its body weight in one meal, it drags itself to a sunny location to speed digestion, as the food could rot and poison the dragon if left undigested for too long.

As an energy source for chicks it has several advantages over undigested prey, its calorific value is around 9.6 kcal per gram, which is only slightly lower than the value for diesel oil.

Bacterial fermentation of undigested polysaccharides produces these.

Diets that aim to reduce the amount of undigested fermentable food residues arriving in the colon have been shown to significantly reduce the volume of flatus produced.

In healthy individuals, too much magnesium or vitamin C or undigested lactose can produce osmotic diarrhea and distention of the bowel.

The book pays homage to aspects of The Invisible Man by having Noon have to struggle with exposure to the elements and having to starve himself to avoid boluses of undigested food hovering in the air.

The koala conserves water by passing relatively dry faecal pellets high in undigested fibre, and by storing water in the caecum.

There's the street-wise Windy City wiseguy and then—as if to show off that the wiseguy has Wisdom—there are the undigested chunks of arcane, not entirely impressive, philosophic thought and speculation.

They are made up of micro-organisms and undigested plant cell walls.

Undigested remains of plants from cesspits at Coppergate in York have provided a lot of information in this respect.