Question

What are the different ways of taking food by human

Answer 1

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• There are various ways of taking food like sucking, scraping, chewing, brewing, capturing and swallowing etc. by different animals.

For example

1. Bees takes their food ( nectors ) by sucking the flower.
2. Snakes take their food ( rats and other small animals , insects ) by swallowing.
3. For Lice their food is Blood by sucking.

In human the mode of nutrition or taking food is Ingestion refers to the intaking of food through Mouth.

Digestion in human

• Digestion in human starts from the buccal cavity / mouth. After taking food by ingestion teeth and salivary glands acts their important roles in digestion. Saliva released by the salivary gland breakdown the of starch.

• The food after swallowing in mouth runs through the oesophagus /food pipe connected with stomach.

• HCL and enzymes in stomach makes their own functions to breakdown the carbohydrates / proteins / fats / starch products and more into smaller units.

• Small intestine makes the absorption of these small units well as well as large intestine do so the absorption of water and also the nutrients.

Hence , there is a combination of different ways in human like , ingestion , swallowing in mouth , chewing and more helping in food digestion.