Why cant we chew food indefinitely?

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I was thinking about this yesterday while eating a juicy burger, I tried chewing as much as possible to try and keep tasting the food but at some point for some reason I couldnt do it anymore and I swallowed the bite, what gives?

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The point of chewing is to break the big piece into a bunch of little pieces, and it mixes with your saliva while that happens. Eventually it gets mashed up enough that you have a paste/mush/liquid in your mouth. There’s nothing big enough for your teeth to catch onto, so it’s like trying to chew on a milkshake

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