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We know how a solid food gets digested in our stomach. What happens to the water we drink? Is the drinking of water also called digestion in our tummy?!

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No, water can't be further broken down by our body.
It is absorbed as such from our large intestine.
Therefore we can't tell drinking of water as digestion

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