How to Use undigested in a Sentence

undigested

adjective
  • They are made of undigested foods like fruit peels and seeds.
    Jay N. Yepuri, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The python young are still packed full of undigested egg yolk when they are born.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2018
  • These undigested fats cause stool to look pale and clay-colored.
    Jay N. Yepuri, Health, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Like a fan overindulging with beer, the snowy owl coughed up the undigested remnants of its meals.
    Katie Vogel, Cincinnati.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • This young lion had a gob of undigested goat meat and black goat hair inside it.
    sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That’s because whole flaxseed is likely to pass through your intestines undigested.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • For example, undigested food in your poop may appear due to a high-fiber diet.
    Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 30 June 2023
  • The only thing in food that makes it to your colon undigested and intact is dietary fibre (think corn).
    Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Pellets contain the undigested parts of food birds have eaten -- for instance, bones or teeth.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 23 Oct. 2019
  • There are people just out there searching for 100-year-old wads of undigested squid beaks.
    Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 23 May 2022
  • The infant’s gut had stopped functioning, clogging his feeding tube with undigested food.
    Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2021
  • This is because vitamins can attach to undigested fat in your stool, causing it to stink2.
    Jessica Toscano, SELF, 8 July 2022
  • The fecal tests revealed that these rats excreted more undigested fat in their waste, with no signs of gut discomfort.
    Jay Kakade august 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Prebiotics are types of carbohydrates that make their way to your colon undigested, where your gut microbes feast on them.
    Jessica Migala, Women's Health, 24 July 2023
  • In what's sometimes termed diffuse or distal esophageal spasm, there may also be a backflow of stomach acids or undigested foods.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Those spheres were undigested bubble tea pearls, her doctors supposedly said.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Some predatory birds such as owls take an additional step and spit back up pellets of undigested bone, feathers, and hair.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
  • These undigested foods suck water into the GI tract, and a result is often a watery mess.
    New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • If the bowels contain seeds, corn, or other pieces of undigested food, the provider might recommend redoing the colonoscopy.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Bananas contain both fiber and resistant starch, a type of undigested carbohydrate in the gut.
    Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 22 July 2026
  • Many people forget that undigested food can cause weight to increase, according to Nelson.
    Suzie Glassman, Health.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Feces are a smelly mixture of water, undigested food, dead and living bacteria, and other cells and substances.
    Wired, 9 July 2022
  • People with this condition spit up undigested or partially digested food into their mouths after most meals, then chew or spit it out.
    Karen Pallarito, Health, 27 July 2023
  • The three characteristics of the celiac traid are failure to thrive, the passage of large, undigested stools, and an enlarged abdomen.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Just as fruit and meats left untouched began to rot and putrefy, so did dregs and undigested material inside the body turn poisonous if not expelled.
    Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Food was passing through her body undigested because her pancreas had been damaged as a result of thick mucus blocking the ducts that release digestive enzymes.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The gut breaks down gluten proteins, but this process may be incomplete, leaving undigested gluten to trigger IBS symptoms.
    Roxana Ehsani, Health, 10 July 2024
  • Faster digestion may help get more fiber and other undigested nutrients to the lower part of the gut, providing a feast for the microbes that live there, Damman says.
    Maria Godoy, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024
  • At 2 hours and 30 minutes, the play can sometimes seem indulgent; parts of the story feel undigested and perhaps indigestible.
    New York Times, 22 June 2022
  • There, deBessonet presented a grand and agnostic take on the show, adaptable to any result in the polls, which made the undigested aspects of the material stand out.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025

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