What form of energy is chewing food?

Answer 1

It is both types of energy actually (potential and kinetic). The act of chewing involves kinetic energy (moving your jaw, the energy burned processing the food, etc.). When you consume the nutrients in the food, they are converted to potential energy which when used is then converted to kinetic energy when you use the muscles for more chewing, walking, breathing, etc. So, you turn potential energy, stored in glucose in your muscles, into kinetic energy when you chew the food by moving those muscles and digest the nutrients, which stores up more potential energy to be converted into other examples of kinetic energy when you burn that fuel for walking, running, living. Bit of a big circle.

Answer 2

Chewing food is a physical change but is necessary to release chemical energy from the food. Chewing food helps the chemical process go to completion, sort of like crushing a substance before recrystallizing.

Answer 3

Chewing food affects your body's ability to release the chemical energy of the food. This is where digestion begins with the saliva releasing enzymes to break down food.

Answer 4

mechanical (or kinetic energy) plus chemical energy

Answer 5

muscle energy

Answer 6

Chemical