However, they noted that DIT increased with the duration of tasting and chewing food. It did so by increasing gas exchange, protein oxidation, and splanchnic artery blood circulation. This artery feeds blood to the digestive organs, which then help increase intestinal movement.
Is There A “Magic” Number When It Comes To Chewing Food Properly?
If you’ve ever researched the potential benefits of chewing food properly, then you might have come across number 32. Some people say chewing food 32 times breaks down food so that it becomes easier to digest them. Of course, foods that are harder to chew may require more chewing.
The thing is, there’s no study surrounding this “magic” number. It is, however, close to the number of times the participants chewed the liquid test food in the study we mentioned above.
In the study, the participants chewed their food once every second for 30 seconds.
They also said that the increase in DIT may be small per meal, but it becomes “substantial” due to the cumulative effect of all meals a person eats in a year. Hence, chewing food properly for longer can help prevent obesity and metabolic syndromes, conditions that increase a person’s risk to many diseases, like diabetes and heart problems.
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