Food Oral Processing

While the taste of something would seem, intuitively, to be a fairly universal thing, a relatively new realm of research contends that this isn't actually the case: an array of biological functions can make the process of consuming things a somewhat or substantially different experience from person to person.

Food oral processing explores how the texture and flavor (both aroma and taste), the bolus swallowing (the chewing of food and mixing it with saliva in our mouths creates a "bolus" that is then swallowed), and our eating behaviors vary from person to person.