Do you chew your food thoroughly for proper digestion, or just enough to be able to swallow it?

Chewing brings out more of the flavour so that's a good reason as well. If it's something I don't like, I try to dispatch it down my gullet more swiftly without choking.

No: I rely on instinct!

We should not swallow food whole, but the notion of counting bites is NOT new. It was current a century and more ago, along with other health fads later realised to be rather meaningless.

"According to most experts" does not really mean much either. How many experts in what field, publishing where; and summarised where?

I swallow a lot of food whole, food seems to digest in my throat for some reason like it’s on fire or something

I don't chew thoroughly, but I also don't just swallow it either.
I eat slow.

Would this increase the extraction of nutrients?

@HumbleGuy 😞maybe not enough perhaps in my case

I don't chew, swallow, or digest

I chew it enough to swallow

When I was about 13 I learned a wonderful new word for chewing. "Masticate." That evening at the dinner table I told my sister to "masterbate your food well." I knew when I said it that it wasn't what I meant to say. Then I realized what I had said.

I swallow like we swallow tablets/pills

i was thinking about this the other day,as in health class they taught this,i just gulp it down now lol