Eating

In general terms, eating (formally, ingestion) is the process of consuming something edible, i.e. food, for the purpose of providing for the nutritional needs of an animal, particularly their energy requirements. All animals must eat other organisms in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, and omnivores consume a mixture of both.

Related Topics:
Food - Nutritional - Animal - Energy - Organism - Carnivore - Herbivore - Plant - Omnivore

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While the process of eating varies from species to species, in humans eating is performed by placing food in the mouth and then swallowing it, with chewing often occurring between these actions. Eaten food is then digested.

Related Topics:
Human - Mouth - Swallowing - Chewing - Digested

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