Is it true that if you were to eat bread dough that it would rise in your stomach?

Not according to this site. It says that

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The hydrochloric acid [in your stomach] would kill the yeast in raw bread dough. Without yeast, the dough can't produce carbon dioxide, so it can't rise -- in your stomach or otherwise.

Our food nutritionist friends don't recommend munching on raw bread dough, though. Besides tasting funny, uncooked bread dough is hard to digest. Raw dough is barely touched before it slides into the large intestine. Bacteria there can do the job, but plug your nose -- it will give you a lot of gas!

Thanks, I have no intention of eating it...I had a coversation with my sis-in-law about pop rocks and soda that led into the bread rising in boys tummy rumor.

"Is it true that if you were to eat bread dough that it would rise in your stomach?"

But if you at enough bread dough, your stomach will rise.

I actually knew a wrestler who, in order to kill his appetite so as to lose weight, ate two boxes of Jello and then drank the amount of water recommended for the two boxes. His theory was that the Jello powder and water would gel, thus filling his stomach. It was my experience that wrestlers were either very intelligent or very stupid. This guy was never at a National Honor Society meeting.

Funny you should mention the Jell-O thing...we also talked about that with the bread discussion...Obviously the Jell-O wouldn't "Jell", it needs to be cold and unless his body temp was the same as the fridge it would never work!!! The bread theory was more plausible....dough rises in a warm moist place.

I heard if you eat a watermelon seed then a watermelon would grow in your tummy. I never tried it to find out!

I'll try that out clare!!!