A small muscle in the back of your throat called the epiglotis.
Epiglottis...
The food and beverages that go down the food pipe are prevented from entering the wind pipe with the help of epiglottis. When we swallow, the flap of cartilage shuts down automatically, causing it to reach the digestive system.
The flap that prevents food from entering your windpipe is called the epiglottis. It is a leaf-shaped structure located at the base of the tongue that closes off the trachea during swallowing to ensure that food goes down the esophagus instead.
There are two reasons this doesn't happen. One is that you cannot breate while swallowing, and the other is that the body has an involuntary reflex that prevents it from inhaling food.
Food is prevented from going down the winpipe because the epiclottis.
The windpipe is the pipe in which air and gasses travel down (i.e oxygen) the gullet is the pipe which our food and drink travel down
You have a sort of flap in the back of your throat called the epiglottis. When you swallow, the epiglottis flaps down over your trachea (windpipe) which prevents food from entering your respiratory system. So the epiglottis is what keeps food from entering the respiratory system.
It is a flap of skin that stops food from going down the windpipe
Epiglottis
When you swallow, a small flap of tissue called the epiglottis covers the opening to the windpipe (trachea), directing food down the esophagus into the stomach. This process is coordinated by the swallowing reflex, preventing food from entering the windpipe and causing choking.
The epiglottis is a flap of tissue that prevents food from entering the windpipe (trachea) when swallowing. It acts as a cover for the trachea, ensuring that food only goes down the esophagus to the stomach.
yes it's dangerous becase when u breath ur windpipes open up,and if there is food coming down ur throat and its in ur windpipe u'll choke.