For those who have chronic indigestion, you may have been told it is not only due to certain foods you eat but also to the delayed emptying of the contents of your stomach. In one study where participants consumed ginger with a bowl of soup, they showed their stomach to empty its contents 16 to 12 minutes before those who only had soup. It was concluded that just a little over a gram of ginger before consuming a meal accelerated digestion by 50%.