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  • Do not be in a hurry to bolt your food but let it linger in your mouth so as to be properly insalivated and so that the nerves of the tongue, cheek, etc., may all absorb energy from food.

    The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

  • They are hard, solid food, and should be thoroughly chewed and insalivated before being swallowed.

    No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon

  • If it is insalivated it coagulates in smaller curds and is more easily digested, for the digestive juices can tear down small soft curds more easily than the large tough ones.

    Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency R. L. Alsaker

  • It is thus of no advantage for starches to be served in a finely divided form -- in fact it is directly the contrary, since under such circumstances it is almost always the case that such foods are swallowed without having been insalivated.

    Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896

  • Another peculiarity of foods of this kind that makes decidedly against their digestibility lies in the fact that, being soft and containing a large proportion of water, they are scarcely ever properly chewed, and as a consequence they are swallowed in comparatively large masses without having been adequately insalivated.

    Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896

  • Quidding consists in dropping from the mouth well-chewed and insalivated boluses of feed.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Gerard had; and they masticated slowly, reduced the food to pulp, and insalivated it, accompanying in thought the alimentary mass passing into their intestines, and following it with methodical scrupulosity and an almost religious attention to its final consequences.

    Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • If it is given as liquid or pap it will pass down as starch into the stomach, to setup disturbance in that organ; while if it is administered in a form which obliges the child to chew it properly, not only will the jaws, the teeth, and the gums obtain the exercise which they crave, and without which they cannot develop normally, but the starch will be thoroughly insalivated that much of it will be converted within the mouth into maltose.

    The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

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