Mastication

In this class too must be reckoned the teeth, which in some animals have but a single function, namely the mastication of the food, while in others they have an additional office, namely to serve as weapons; as is the case with all animals that have sharp interfitting teeth or that have tusks. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Nuts should be used as a food staple, a major element in the bill of fare, rather than as a dessert, and special care must be taken as to thorough mastication, which is almost equally true of apples, bananas and numerous other fruits which possess a firm flesh. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Barley is not liked by everybody; nevertheless, it is an excellent food and its nature is such that even after long cooking it remains so firm as to require thorough mastication, which is the first great step in the digestion of starchy foods. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The so-called mastication work is taking place at two sites: 22 acres east of Interstate 5 along Antlers Drive and 130 acres west of I-5, north of Doney Creek. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its content-analyzing mastication glands find little nutritional value. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another was to evaluate if eating the same meal at varying speeds of mastication would result in a different postprandial after eating gut peptide responses. ❋ Georgianna Donadio (2012)

Not unknown in other parts of the world, the idea of addressing the first step to food digestion and an important factor in reducing excess body weight, mastication -- or, simply put, chewing -- has a significant effect on the hormones of our gut, which in turn affects energy intake, metabolic caloric use and overall body weight. ❋ Georgianna Donadio (2012)

Instead, what you want is the whole clam belly, well coated and properly fried in clean, hot oil, to produce the total joy that comes from the soft, seaworthy oozing revealed upon mastication. ❋ Robert Rosenthal (2011)

The gum-chewing man staring out the window, his mastication amplified by his superb moustache. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

I didn't pay much attention, at first, thinking the rabbity mastication motions a tic, probably something rabbits just did. ❋ Sandra Knauf (2011)

The number [ONE ONLY] they get from all this mastication of data is meaningless. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today we will hone our intellectual palette on only one facet of this onyx jewel in the vast diaspora of sinister mastication: Cthulhu Cakes ❋ Unknown (2010)