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I could chew a piece 2 times, swallow, and wait 30 seconds before eating the next piece. Or I can chew 15 times, swallow, and immediately eat the next piece. I
by dagw 6y ago
I could chew a piece 2 times, swallow, and wait 30 seconds before eating the next piece. Or I can chew 15 times, swallow, and immediately eat the next piece. If it's the 30 second wait that is the key rather than the actual chewing then you can tell people to focus on that rather than counting chews.
- ivanhoe 6y agoIt's about the amount of pre-processing the food gets in our mouth, so the effect they're measuring depends on the time the food has spent in the mouth, in contact with enzymes from saliva, and how finely ground it was by our teeth. A bit hard to put that into a single easy to understand metric.
- tomgp 6y agoyes, that is the assumption, but I couldn't find anywhere in the paper that they controll for time as suggested by the upthread posts -- I admit to only skimming it though.