Rotting happens when bacteria lodge on food and start digesting that food to fuel their own growth. The white and green specks you see on a strawberry you’ve left too long in the fridge are bacteria growing. First off, rotting takes days or weeks to happen. It can’t happen in a few hours, which is about how long it takes for fruit to be digested. Second, our stomach is an acidic environment (pH 1–2), and any environment with a pH below 4 prevents bacterial overgrowth (and therefore rotting). Nothing can rot in the stomach, and in fact, the stomach, together with the oesophagus, is the place
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