The importance of chewing

[ChristinaT]

This has been asked and discussed a few times before.
I’m too lazy to write out my thoughts on this again, so here’s a link to another thread:

Long term impact of Huel on health

I’ll let @JamesCollier answer this properly, but This isn’t really correct. We need to chew food to make it more digestible to the stomach. If we swallowed our food whole in ‘chunks’, the digestive system would struggle. There’s no significant disadvantage to liquid food - we eat soup with no problems, and elderly people or those with some health problems find liquid diets much easier to digest. There has been some discussion around the need to chew for optimal health and there is some scien…