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The Materials Science of Eating and Food Breakdown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Peter J Lillford
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Most of the process of eating is a learned skill. While an infant readily puts most things in its mouth, the ability to distinguish food from any other material has to be taught, and even then it is several years before the whole range of foods can be consumed efficiently. Yet by the time we are 5–10 years old, our mastery of the complex set of mechanical actions involving tongue, teeth, and swallowing is so complete that we do not consciously note what we are doing or how we do it.

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MRS Bulletin , Volume 25 , Issue 12: Materials Science in the Food Industry , December 2000 , pp. 38 - 43
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

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