Why does drinking acidic solutions such as orange juice NOT make the blood acidic

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Why does drinking acidic solutions such as orange juice NOT make the blood

acidic?

Blood is alkaline and alkaline solutions react with ingested acids to neutralise them.
The volume of water in the body is great enough that the effect of ingested acidic food and drink on pH is negligible.
The blood has buffers whose components are able to resist changes to blood pH.
The kidney is able to rapidly filter acidic components from blood to avoid pH changes.

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C: The blood has the ability to buffer normal intakes of acidic or

basic substances. So excursions of blood pH outside the healthy range are

prevented.

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