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Question
Chew it or chew it well: What’s the difference?
Try this together in class:
Each of you takes a piece of bread or roti or some cooked rice.
Put it in your mouth, chew three to four times and swallow it.
Did the taste change as you chewed it?
Now take another piece or some rice and chew it thirty to thirty-two times.
Was there any change in the taste after chewing so many times?
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Solution
Do it yourself.
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