Digestion:Chewing

digestive chewing

Why is it important to thoroughly chew food? Digestion is the process of breaking the food you eat into small enough pieces to be used by your body. This process starts in your mouth. First, knife-like teeth in the front of your mouth, called incisors, cut and slice a small piece from the food. The [...]

Fly Digestion

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Barfing Flies Did You Know…Flies taste with their feet? Insects have taste organs which are usually located on their mouth parts; but some insects, such as house flies can taste with their feet.When a fly walks on your pizza, nerves in the fly’s feet detect the presence of different chemicals in the food and send [...]