How does saliva help you swallow food?

Answer 1

It helps taste the food, it helps move it around the mouth, and it helps the mouth swallow the food by pushing it back toward the throat.
the tongue plays the role of moving around the food in your mouth.!
it rolls the food into tiny balls
It pushes the food down your esophagus.
When the teeth chews and grind the food the tongue rolls the food into a bolus and makes it easier for the food to go down the oesophagus(food tube).
it helps to chew the food so that it can go down the esophagus
It manipulates food so that it can be masticated.
Produce saliva And make the food smoother and easier to digest.
The tongue helps to digest food by moving the food around into the shape of an oval (a ball called a "bolus") so that it is easier to swallow. It pushes the food around to different teeth and to allow the bolus to mix with saliva, and then pushes the food into the esophagus.It helps us to taste and select suitable foods (e.g. if it tastes horrible then you will spit it out so that your body does not need to digest the horrible food).

Answer 2

The tongue moves food around in order to chew it thoroughly. In addition, the muscles in the tongue move the chewed food to the opening of the esophagus.