Why can’t we swallow rapidly?

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I can only swallow at a rate of like once every two seconds at the fastest… Why?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Not an expert, but maybe also an evolutional solution to humans not dumping food down to stomach too fast. Some food has to be broke down before by crushing with teeth and adding saliva is the beginning of digesting. Otherwise dropping large chunks of unprocessed food material fast on stomach would make the digestion harder.

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