Different Ways of Taking Food

Introduction

A body utilizes the energy consumed from food in a different manner. Understanding the difference between food intake procedures can be helpful in understanding each significant nature of food habits. The process of in taking food varies from animal to animal and even from human to human. The basic process of having food is different from each other and every single way holds an important part in the life of a living being.

Ingestion - The Way of Taking Food

In continuing everyday activity, each living being requires energy that can be extracted only from food. In having food, all living beings follow some significant part. The significant process of having food and drinking some liquid is known as the ingestion process. The two most important mechanical aspects of ingesting food are firstly chewing and then swallowing. The anatomy of each different organism is important in understanding the differences in food habits.

Various Types of Ingestion in Animal

Names of the Living Beings	Food	Mode of consuming food
Spider	Various insects	Grinding
Hummingbird	Nectar	Sucking
Snail	Green grass	Chewing
Hydra	Fish and small insects	Tentacles
Snakes	Small rats	Swallowing
Housefly	Specific decaying after	Brewing
Ants	Dead insects	Scraping
Lice	Blood	Sucking
Amoeba	Small food particles	Pseudopodia

Various of Types of Ingestion in Human Being

A human being's food intake procedure is associated with the different food intake processes which can help a human being in digesting food. Based on the needs of the human body, a person is found to consume food. At a certain point, besides solid food, a person also consumes some liquid food.

Ingestion and digestion are the two most important parts of a body’s energy generation method. In extracting the nutrition from the food, each living being follows some individual path and ways. A human being is also not different from that. A human body possesses an assimilation system in which the nutrients are gathered from the food, and each cell absorbs these nutrients. The nutrient absorption process within the bloodstream is named absorption which is an important part of the human body’s food intake system.

The four main systems associated with the human body’s food intake process are ingestion, digestion, absorption of nutrients and finally elimination. Each body is capable of extracting just the required portion from the intake of food and therefore is capable of differentiating the needed and unneeded nutrients.

Relation Between Digestion and Ingestion

All living beings’ food having system consists of two significant parts, namely ingestion, and digestion. Based on these two processes the overall aim of having food in gaining strength and energy can vary. In the human body, the intake of food transforms from the mouth to the stomach and goes through the small intestine and then to the large intestine. In different life stages of human life, the food-taking ways are found to be different.

Examples

• When a human being is at the infant level, the mode of intake food is mostly swallowing. The very first stage of human life starts with sucking breast milk which is an important food intake way too. The human digestion system begins with the significant buckle cavity and then the process is led to the oesophagus stage. The digestive system is the same for all human beings and therefore in every stage of human life, the food intake ways are also the same.

• The digestion and ingestion process of an amoeba can be granted as an example in stating the overall nature and importance of the food intake process. In amoeba, the food intake system is mostly dependent on pseudopodia. This organism’s body absorbs all the digestive food particles and finally, the energy is provided to this creature. A cell number is available in amoeba and with that, a nucleus is also available that helps in creating vacuoles within an amoeba’s cytoplasm. An amoeba is also capable of expelling out all the undigested food particles which are also very important besides food intake habits.

Conclusion

Different types of nutrition levels are associated with differences in the food intake habits of living beings. The digestive systems of organisms being different from each other possess an important role in some specific organs. Each organ, connected to the food intake habit is a very important part of the body. Some of the lower organisms are found not to have a proper digestive system. In the whole digestive system, the food particles are broken into some parts based on different ways of taking food.

FAQs

Q1. Which process is associated with the food intake habit of living beings?

Ans. Each and every living creature consumes food in order to live and grow. The food intake procedure differs from creature to creature as the body parts, helping to have food are different in most living creatures. The ingestion process is considered to be integrally associated with the food intake habit of living beings.

Q2. What can be the three most important methods of ingestion, found in living beings?

Ans. All of the living creatures are found to follow some specific ways of ingestion. The three most important ingestion methods are swallowing, intravenous injection and subcutaneous injection.

Q3. What is the term, associated with the food chewing process?

Ans. An important part and type of food intake process are related to the chewing procedure of some animals. In digesting food, chewing plays an important role. The chewing process is named mastication which helps the creature in swallowing the food easily.

Q4. Which three phases are integrally connected to the living being’s digestion procedure?

Ans. Among various stages, the gastric activity of a living being is integrally involved in three most significant stages. The phases are the cephalic phase, gastric phase, and intestinal phase.