{"id":552,"date":"2010-01-28T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2013-06-21T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T04:08:23","slug":"the-7-11-double-big-gulp-holds-200-more-than-the-average-adult-humans-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/the-7-11-double-big-gulp-holds-200-more-than-the-average-adult-humans-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"The 7-11 Double Big Gulp Holds 200% More Than the Average Adult Human\u2019s Stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"7-11<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> that the 7-11 Double Big Gulp holds about twice the amount of fluid than the average adult human’s stomach.<\/p>\n

The average adult human’s stomach can hold comfortably about 32 ounces at any given time (edit: excepting we Americans who, judging from the comments, apparently can hold about 138 times that amount despite science’s official averages).\u00a0 The Double Big Gulp holds about 64 ounces of soda or Slurpee.<\/p>\n

Now, your stomach can process liquids at about a rate of 200-400 ml an hour according to research done by Shils et al. in 1994.\u00a0\u00a0 The rate mostly depends on what else is in your stomach at the time of digestion.\u00a0 Generally speaking, an empty stomach will digest the liquid fastest.\u00a0 This means that if you want to actually drink the entire double big gulp without needing to vomit or otherwise stretch your stomach to extremes it’s not meant to handle, the absolute quickest you could do it, assuming starting on a completely empty stomach and not lucky enough to be an American with our lifetime of practice stretching our stomachs to extremes, will be approximately 4.73 hours.\u00a0 So unless you like your soda or Slurpee warm and fizz-less in the former case, probably best to stay away from the Double Big Gulp.\u00a0 It just really isn’t going to work out for you in terms of being able to drink it all while it’s still tasty.<\/p>\n

Next down we have the “Super Big Gulp” generally coming in at 44 oz or approximately 138% the size your stomach is comfortable expanding to.\u00a0 Here, the best case scenario is that you could drink it comfortably in about 3.25 hours,\u00a0 which is still not going to really work out for you unless you like your drinks warm and possibly fizz-less.<\/p>\n

Now at the 32 ounce size we have two options:\u00a0 the classic Big Gulp or my personal favorite the “Extreme Gulp”.\u00a0 This is the perfect sized drink.\u00a0 It is exactly the same size as the average adult stomach is capable of comfortably expanding to.\u00a0 This means, on an empty stomach, you can chug it all down and not worry about the fact that it will take your stomach about 2.36 hours to actually process it all.\u00a0 And if you happen to be American and put ice in your soda unlike most of the rest of the world, then you’ll have extra room for tasty nachos to go with your gigantic soda and stomach.\u00a0 Sugar rushes for everyone!!!<\/p>\n

Best of all, say you don’t want to chug it all down at once (for some odd reason).\u00a0 If you like ice in your drink like us Americans, the Extreme Gulp is capable of keeping the ice frozen in your drink for about 6 hours or so, give or take depending on outside temperature.\u00a0 Literally this thing is like a mini-cooler (and is kind of the size of one, truth to tell).\u00a0 So your drink stays un-watered down and icy cold for plenty of time to comfortably drink your tasty beverage, even if you happen to want to eat something and use a little room in your stomach for non-beverage purposes.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 a newborn baby’s stomach can only handle about 1 oz of fluids.\u00a0 So, until 7-11 comes out with a “Baby Gulp”, probably avoid getting them their own Big Gulp until they man-up a bit.<\/p>\n

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