• Question: Why is it that regardless of if you have eaten them or not, that carrots appear in your vomit?

    Asked by summer17 to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 3 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      Hahaha I do like this question, as gross as it is. Do you actually see carrots all the time? I can remember times where I’ve had a bug and been sick and not seen any at all. I have read articles about this, some people say it’s pieces of the stomach lining, this I doubt as to resemble carrot it would be prety big and would have left a mighty gap in the lining making it vunerable to the acids of the stomach. I’ve also hear people say that it’s carrot left over thats not been digested yet; this is more feasable as carrots are mostly lignin (a tough fibre that most plants/root vegitables are made from) and are diffictult to digest raw, much the same as sweetcorn.

    • Photo: Vee Mitchell

      Vee Mitchell answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      I must admit I did hear a doc on the telly say that it actually pieces of stomach lining and not carrots. Apparently when you vomit it’s such a violent process that pieces of your stomach lining come away – I think that’s more gross than the idea of it being carrots.

    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      Sometimes the stomach acid (which is yellow) reacts a bit with the food that you have eaten, particularly if its pale, making it look an orangey colour and a bit carrot ike.

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