Do you start absorbing nutrients and calories as soon as food gets in your stomach? OR not until intestines?

Question

Do you start absorbing nutrients and calories as soon as food gets in your stomach? OR not until intestines?

Answer 1

Even before the food gets into your stomach. But your stomach is the main place that allows your body to absorb the "good stuff".

Answer 2

The stomach absorbs very few substances, although small amounts of certain lipid-soluble compounds can be taken up, including aspirin, other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and ethanol. Absorption of nutrients occurs primarily in the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.