This was a quick lab that was completed in class. The purpose of this lab was to see an example of digestion and how to speed it up:
First, a test tube was taken and a sugar cube was placed into it. Second, in another test tube, a sugar cube that has been crushed to little pieces was put into it. Third, both test tubes were filled with the same amount of water and were shaken for one minute. As the test tubes were shaken, the test tube with the crushed sugar cubes dissolved in the water first.
By observing what happened, I was able to conclude that when eating, chewing your food first will help speed up digestion because the food is already broken down and that it's less work when it reaches the stomach. However, if people were to swallow their food whole, digestion would be much slower because the stomach still has to break down the food.
In other words, food that has already been crushed, digests faster than food that is still whole.
First, a test tube was taken and a sugar cube was placed into it. Second, in another test tube, a sugar cube that has been crushed to little pieces was put into it. Third, both test tubes were filled with the same amount of water and were shaken for one minute. As the test tubes were shaken, the test tube with the crushed sugar cubes dissolved in the water first.
By observing what happened, I was able to conclude that when eating, chewing your food first will help speed up digestion because the food is already broken down and that it's less work when it reaches the stomach. However, if people were to swallow their food whole, digestion would be much slower because the stomach still has to break down the food.In other words, food that has already been crushed, digests faster than food that is still whole.
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