Mucin softens the food to allow it to slide down the oesophagous more easily
When swallowed, food is referred to as a bolus. This is a mass of chewed food mixed with saliva that travels down the esophagus to the stomach for further digestion.
A ball of chewed up food is called a bolus. It forms in the mouth during the chewing process and is then swallowed to move down the esophagus and into the stomach for further digestion.
The chewed up lump of food is known as a bolus.
Chewed food mixed with saliva is called Bolus.
A bolus (of food, for instance) passes through the esophagus.
A ball of chewed food mixed with saliva is referred to as a bolus.
You can get Indigestion!
Mechanical digestion
Mechanical digestion :)
The saliva in the mouth adds an enzyme to the food being chewed to help break it down before it gets swallowed. Saliva also adds moisture to the food to help make it easier to swallow.
Broken up by the teeth and mixed with saliva, which lubricates it so its easier to swallow.
Saliva
A bolus is a compact mass of chewed food mixed with saliva that is ready to be swallowed. It forms in your mouth during the chewing process before being pushed down the esophagus and into the stomach for digestion.
i dont think that there is a technical name for it, its just whats in your question or chewed up food.
After being chewed, food goes down a tube called the esophagus and into the stomach which is very acidic.
stomach
food is chewed in your molars.