How much food can you eat during a competitive eating contest?

How much food can you eat during a competitive eating contest?

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It really depends on the type of food that you eat during the contest. Certainly, heavy foods that have a lot of dough products in them, meat products, usually you can eat a little bit less of them than you would on a vegetable or fruit item or some other type of item. Typically beef and bread items are the toughest. I've eaten a 7lb hamburger in about an hour before. I've eaten probably the most in one sitting - I did a training one time eating oranges and various citrus-type fruits getting ready for clementines and I think I ate somewhere around 11lbs - I speed ate 11lbs. But it really depends and some days you can hold more than other days.