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Comment author: Lumifer 24 December 2013 04:10:16PM 1 point [-]

Stuff that enters the body to be processed in the intestine is food for some definition of "food".

By the time that stuff is in the colon -- which is what gets transplanted -- it's not food any more. At least not for humans.