Why does your jaw ant when you chew some types of food?

Do you know when you work so hard you get tired? This also happens to your jaw glands when you try some types of foods.

Producing saliva is the real work of our salivary glands (wow, what a surprise!), But even they can get overwhelmed - after all, the body produces between 2 and 4 liters of saliva a day. It's saliva as hell!

Although it is made up of 99.5% water, saliva is designed to help dissolve what you eat before the next stages of the digestive system. For this, some substances that are part of it also come into play and contribute to chewing, taste, swallowing and protection of teeth.

When they identify certain types of foods, they send a command to the salivary glands - which are under the tongue, just near the part of the jaw that feels that burning sometimes. If the food you are eating is spicy, sour, sour or sweet, this command is precisely to produce more saliva in order to contribute to digestion and not to overload your digestive system.

Then the glands take charge on their own at first, to lessen the impact later. And that shiver or tingling you feel in the jaw is a sign that they are working.

And the most curious thing about this is that you don't even have to be chewing on these foods to have that feeling! The human mind is so powerful that just imagining chewing on something very sour can send this command to the salivary glands.

By the way, that's the idea that something "makes your mouth water"! You think of a dish you really like, and your taste buds flutter and send command to your salivary glands. The result? The mouth is full of water - or rather, saliva!

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