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Why aren't we evolved to eat grass?
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The thing is that cows can't digest grass either. They have an extra stomach along their oesophagus which is basically just a pouch where the grass goes in first. There are a lot of bacteria and they can digest grass. Then these bacteria grow because they eat the grass.
Then the cow swallows these bacteria and digests those. That's where a cow gets their calories from.
Cows only have 1 stomach. That is devided in 4 compartments.
Humans can't digest anything without bacteria either.
Albeit true, not to the extent of cows.
they can
when you eat fruit, the sugar can enter your bloodstream directly through the mucosa in your mouth, you don't even need to swallow it. although the main part of the absorption happens in the colon still.