It is important to chew your food thoroughly before swallowing it because digestion begins in the mouth. One of the enzymes that your saliva contains is called alpha amylase. This enzyme is responsible for breaking down the starches that you eat into smaller molecules that the cells in your body can use for energy. When your food is not chewed properly, the alpha amylase in your saliva does not have the opportunity to break down these starches, leaving body cells starved.
chewing of food in our mouth cavity is must as many juice combine with it from mouth when we chew it properly. If we fail to chew many juice will not be available for digestion of food. The process of digestion starts at mouth. whe we chew these juices are activated.
Chewing Food is needed in order for the food to be diagested. If food is not chewed enough, there can be complications with your diagestive track.
So you can swollow it and you get all the goodness out of it.
to allow the saliva which contains enzymes to start work breaking down and kill potentially harmful bacteria.
Chewing your food helps to increase the area that is subjected to the digestive juices. It also helps to prevent the discomfort of indigestion or heartburn.
you should chew your food because if you don't then you die! simple and the food gets stuck in the lung pipe and allows you not to breath.
It will help in digesting the food, if you chew it well.
Well I'm left handed but with hard food chew with my right and for soft food I chew with my left.
The word, masticate, means to chew, as in "Masticate (chew) your food well before swallowing."
So you can digest it easily
A hawk has a beak and therefore can not chew food, to chew food you need teeth to chew with.
Professionals state that you should chew your food for at least 13 seconds before you swallow. This aids in digestion.
Mothers all over the world insist that children should chew their food well , as it then gives the stomach less work in digesting the food.Chewing is part of the mechanical digestion and breaks the food into smaller pieces, which allows the chemical digestion to be easier. A larger chunk that a child didn't chew properly will take longer time to break down into monomers to be digested.
So they do not choke on the food.
seahorses do not chew their food because they do not have teeth
No they do not, they swallow their food whole.
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