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'Mastication' or 'chewing' is the process by which food is crushed and ground by teeth. Cattle and some other animals, called ruminants, chew food more than once to extract more nutrients. The chewing cycle Mastication is a repetitive sequence of jaw opening and closing with a profile in the vertical plane called the chewing cycle. # Opening phase: the mouth is opened and the mandible is depressed ...Mastication