eating
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- Eating practices among humans
- Development in humans
- Eating positions
- Compulsive overeating
- Hunger and satiety
- Initiation
- Termination
- Role of the brain
- Disorders
- Other animals
- Birds
- Mammals
- See also
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thumb|288px|Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond cookies
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive – carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies.