“…Following from animal models, Hiiemae et al () categorized the chewing sequence in humans into ingestion, rhythmical chewing, and clearance and swallowing. Other researchers have used first bite, first five cycles, and last three cycles (Çakır et al, ); or first five, next five, and last five cycles (Brown & Braxton, ); mean of cycles 2–4, mean of three middle cycles, and mean of the last three cycles (Foster, Woda, & Peyron, ); and first bite and the three following thirds of the mastication sequence (Le Révérend et al, ). In this study, we simply divided the chewing sequence in half into stage 1 and stage 2 chewing.…”