Chewing chewing, the food (now called a bolus) is swallowed. It enters the esophagus and via peristalsis continues on to the stomach, where the next step of digestion occurs. Premastication is sometimes performed by human parents for infants who are unable to do so for themselves. The food is masticated in the mouth of the parent into a bolus and then transferred to the infant for consumption. (Some other animals also premasticate.) Cattle and some other animals, called ruminants, chew food more than once to extract more nutrients. After the first round of chewing, this food is called cud. Chewing is
Chewing tobacco a pipe, or ground up into nasal snuff. Chew bags are traditional cut tobacco in a small bag containing 1 gram each. Chew bags are used in the same way as other chewing tobaccos. Chew bags are defined by European Commission, European Binding Tariff Information (EBTI) as cut or fine cut tobacco flakes (between 1-2 mm wide and 2-6 mm long) packed in sachets. By varying the sachet between the upper lip and by chewing, the consumer controls the release of flavor or nicotine. When the rules of baseball were first written in 1845, the carcinogenic potential of chewing tobacco