Before food is eaten it is chemical potential energy. After the food is consumed it becomes kinetic energy.
Mechanical energy, sum of the kinetic energy, or energy of motion, and the potential energy, or energy stored in a system by reason of the position of its parts. Mechanical energy is constant in a system that has only gravitational forces or in an otherwise idealized system—that is, one lacking dissipative forces, such as friction and air resistance, or one in which such forces can be reasonably neglected. Thus, a swinging pendulum has its greatest kinetic energy and least potential energy in the vertical position, in which its speed is greatest and its height least; it has its least kinetic energy and greatest potential energy at the extremities of its swing, in which its speed is zero and its height is greatest. As the pendulum moves, energy is continuously passing back and forth between the two forms. Neglecting friction at the pivot and air resistance, the sum of the kinetic and potential energies of the pendulum, or its mechanical energy, is constant. Actually the mechanical energy of the system is diminished at the end of each swing by the tiny amount of energy transferred out of the system by the work done by the pendulum in opposition to the forces of friction and air resistance. The mechanical energy of the Earth-Moon system is nearly constant as it is rhythmically interchanged between its kinetic and potential forms. When the Moon is farthest from Earth in its nearly elliptical orbit, its speed is least. Its kinetic energy has become least, and its potential energy is greatest. When the Moon is closest to Earth, it travels fastest; some potential energy has been converted to kinetic energy.
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what type of energy is Food before it is eaten
Chemical Energy :)
it depends, if you have eaten any food before, if you have, then it is that otherwise it is your fat or muscle
No, the body has to process the food before the energy can be accessed.
Chemical Energy
Food, plants , animals are sources of food energy. They are eaten by organisms.
I don't know if this helps, but the energy that you get out of food is chemical energy.
The food you've eaten.
Chemical energy from the food you've eaten.
From the food you've eaten
they have to get eaten so other aniamals in the food chain can have energy
by licking stuff